circumcision

A 16-YEAR-OLD boy from Lupane District in Matabeleland North province used a machete to circumcise himself after succumbing to peer pressure.
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A 33-YEAR-OLD woman from Binga, who was desperate to conceive, died after bleeding for more than a week following a botched circumcision during which her husband’s grandmother cut off parts of her genitalia.
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A Zimbabwean father has been convicted of circumcising his two sons with a pair of nail clippers last November.
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The man from Tegwe Village, Chief Mutasa, who made headlines last month when he circumcised his two minor children with a nail-cutter, was sentenced to six months imprisonment.
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Kenyan men from several ethnic groups in the western town of Moi's Bridge have gone into hiding fearing they will be forcibly circumcised.
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Renowned poet and musician Albert Nyathi will this week get circumcised. Nyathi is also circumcision ambassador for Population Services international in Zimbabwe (PSI).
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Zimbabwe's government is encouraging more men to get circumcised in an effort to fight AIDS. Scientists say male circumcision may reduce the transmission of the HIV virus by up to 60 percent.
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Close to 90,000 males in Zimbabwe have been circumcised so far this year, still short of the 2013 target of 115,000 but a remarkable increase from the 40,755 who underwent the procedure last year, says a health official.
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THREE Gweru men, among them a father and son, were reportedly admitted to Gweru Provincial Hospital after they reacted by bleeding profusely after being circumcised at the hospital's circumcision clinic. In an interview, one of the men said…
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