Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) reduces heterosexual HIV acquisition; therefore, the WHO has issued recommendations to implement VMMC throughout East and Southern Africa Most adult VMMCs ...

A big effort is under way to circumcise 80% of young men in Zimbabwe after a study four years ago found that the operation reduced the chance of contracting HIV by 60%. Yet the procedure is still not ...

Durban - The KwaZulu-Natal health department on Friday insisted that the Tara KLamp method used to circumcise males was safe. This was after Aids activists and doctors called for the use of the ...

KwaZulu-Natal's health department is using a plastic device in its mass male circumcision drive that speeds up the procedure but has significant side-effects in adult men. Doctors who spoke ...

More than 36 boys and infants have lost their manhood in the ongoing HIV-prevention male circumcision programme. Most of the injuries are due to the use of inappropriate forceps that have been banned ...

Since foreskin traps bacteria and other infectious agents, its removal may improve genital hygiene and reduce risk of disease over the lifetime of the boy and his future sexual partners. Net photo ...

Since 2010 a total of 175 927 men were circumcised. Of these, 35 989 were circumcised using the Tara KLamp (TK) and there had been no problems, provincial health minister Sibongiseni Dhlomo told ...

HIV activists and senior doctors have called for an urgent investigation into the continued rollout of a controversial male circumcision device in KwaZulu-Natal. The demand comes after the Treatment ...

Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) has been shown to reduce the risk of female-to-male HIV transmission by 60%. Studies have also shown that by reducing infections in men and boys, the ...

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Durban - The KwaZulu-Natal government has defended the use of the controversial Tara KLamp for male circumcision in the province. "To me the debates around the use of the clamp are peripher[al]," ...