Aids Prevention: Africa’s Circumcision Challenge

There is certainly room for confusion. Although Kabanda’s presentation is thorough, one page of the flip chart, titled ‘MC does not offer 100% protection’ shows a picture of a man chasing two women down the street while throwing his condoms away. Other benefits are overstated: You are preventing your partner from cervical cancer, Kabanda says, when, in fact, the reduction in risk is far from complete. Outside the clinic in Lusaka, it is clear Marvin has also received mixed messages from his counselling session. We were told there was a sixty-something per cent of being I don’t know if it’s from HIV or some sexually transmitted disease, he says. And the 45%, I don’t know what it is; I didn’t get much about that. You will find the original content at this website http://www.nature.com/news/aids-prevention-africa-s-circumcision-challenge-1.14156
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