Swazi Cabinet ministers circumcised

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Five Cabinet ministers are among the 80,000 males who have been circumcised in Swaziland since 2014, APA news service reports. The Ministry of Health’s goal is to circumcise 227,670 male adults, adolescents, and infants by 2018 to contribute to HIV prevention. A large percentage of those circumcised have been boys ages 8 to 15, who usually undergo the procedure during school holidays with their parents’ consent. Swaziland’s public hospitals have introduced a programme to offer circumcision for all male newborns; 774 male infants have been circumcised so far (StarAfrica, 10 May 2016).

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