Medicinske forsøg har vist, at omskæring blandt mænd sænker risikoen for HIV-smitte. Derfor har de sydafrikanske zuluers kongefamilie taget initiativ til en genoplivning af den traditionelle praksis. Irin News skriver om et tiltrængt tiltage i et de lande, der er hårdest ramt af HIV/AIDS.
Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini announced on 4 December that he intended reviving the practice of circumcision among young Zulu men in response to recent studies showing that circumcsied men are 60 percent less likely to become infected with HIV through sex than uncircumcised men. More than a million of the estimated 5.5 million HIV-positive South Africans live in KwaZulu-Natal, the province with the highest HIV prevalence.
– The King is concerned about the HIV/AIDS toll on his nation. The delegations are discussing how circumcision could be adopted as government policy before it is introduced in government hospitals, said Ndabezinhle Sibiya, spokesman for the KwaZulu-Natal Premier, Dr Zweli Mkhize.
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