MEDIA RELEASE: The announcement last week that the World Health Organization (WHO) prequalified the PrePex device for non-surgical voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) offers another important option for expansion of VMMC programs in countries hard hit by the HIV epidemic.…
Health facilities in Mpumalanga’s Gert Sibande district are battling to cope with an increase in requests for medical male circumcision (MMC), according to health workers and patients. Debbie Chauke, a nurse at Ermelo Hospital confirmed that they are able to…
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in Limpopo is threatening to boycott traditional initiation schools in the province if more lives are lost in these schools. In a statement issues this week, the league‘s secretary in the province Klaas…
Mpumalanga provincial department of aims to circumcise 500 000 males for the financial year 2013 For the province to reach this targets, it needs to circumcised 75 000 males per month, 18 750 per week and 3 750 daily .…
