Initiation practices in the province have been suspended for over a year since the country went into lockdown in March last year and will remain closed due to the threat of a third wave of COVID-19 infections.
Limpopo health officials will be monitoring initiation schools to ensure that there is complete compliance as the winter initiation school season begins.
LIMPOPO - As June fast approaches many young boys in the Vhembe district will be sent to mountain schools for circumcision at the annual winter initiation schools.
EASTERN CAPE – A change in approach by the Health Department will see the victims of botched circumcisions performed at initiation schools soon offered surgery to repair the damage done.
Popular soapie actor Kagiso Modupe has, at the age of 33, has decided to be circumcised as a public show of his support of the practice – and is inviting other uncircumcised men to join him.
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 .…
Eight people have been initiated into the new Fixed Dose Combination of ARV treatment at the Magwa Clinic. The new treatment uses one pill, which combines emtricitabine, TDF and efavirenz.
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