A postmortem carried out at Thyolo District Hospital has revealed that a boy who died after being circumcised during an initiation ceremony died of natural causes. Media reports indicated that the boy (name withheld) aged 11 died on Sunday soon after undergoing circumcision at an initiation ceremony. Southern Region Assistant Public Relations Officer, Beatrice Mikuwa sad the boy complained […]
As Malawi embarks on a national voluntary medical male circumcision campaign (VMMC) next Monday, July 22, officials say the country estimates 2.1 million males to have undergone the knife by 2016. Since the country introduced voluntary circumcision in September last year, only 42 000 males have gone through the process but now government estimates about 700 […]
Male circumcision, a campaign that government embarked about two years ago after establishing that it puts men at a lesser risk of contracting HIV, has stalled in the northern region because of lack of enough resources and well trained personnel. Nyasa Times has established that a lot of men who would like to undergo the exercise […]
Religious leaders in Malawi are strongly advising the country’s male community not to take circumcision as a license of engaging into promiscuous behavior by taking advantage of the researches that indicated reduction of chances of getting HIV to men whose sexual reproductive organs have gone under the knife. Some religions, such as Islam, consider circumcision […]
Male circumcision may be one of the possible solutions to family breakups in the country, one of the country’s health experts has said. Health and Communication Expert, Timothy Bonyonga said most women like men whose foreskin is cut off for the pleasure they provide during intercourse compared to those who did not undergo the knife. […]
Population Services International Malawi (PSIM) wants to compliment government efforts to reduce new HIV infection among sexually active men and has rolled out a voluntary male medical circumcision programme in southern region districts of Thyolo and Blantyre. The campaign by Malawi government for medical male circumcision as part of its HIV prevention strategy hopes to […]
Many people and some medical doctors think circumcision removes and damages nothing more than a little extra skin. This is because they don’t know how the intact (uncircumcised) penile shaft functions. The truth is that circumcision removes and damages several critical components of male sexual anatomy which gives more chances to HIV virus transmission. Remember […]
Just as you begin to think that the dispute about including male circumcision as part of HIV/Aids prevention has ended, a sceptic “rocks the boat” and the debate appears to start all over again and; some people begin to wonder whether “to cut or not to cut” When the proponents of safe male circumcision for […]
We do not learn superlative adjectives for nothing. A thought struck me about this when I heard the initiative, still based on controversial research, that circumcision drastically reduces the chances of HIV infections in groups at risk and that Malawi has already bought the idea and started implementing it. This is disturbing coming on the […]
Malawi Government says it wants 80 percent of sexually active men to undergo circumcision aimed at reducing the risk of contracting HIV and AIDS. Deputy Health Minister Halima Daudi said men aged between 15 and 49, should cut off their foreskins in clinics. She was speaking in Lilongwe during the official launch of a National […]
Thyolo district hospital says over 130 people in the district have undergone male circumcision which was aimed at reducing the risk of contracting HIV and AIDS. District hospital HIV and AIDS Coordinator, Richard Chidakwani disclosed this on Friday at a Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) partners District Coordination Meeting. Chidakwani said 101 people were circumcised […]
Malawian cancer expert at the country’s sole certified oncology unit at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QUECH) has asked authorities to consider exploring possibilities of using medical male circumcision as a measure of reducing cases of cervical cancer in women. The country’s lone oncologist, Dr Leo Masamba told the Malawi News Agency (Mana) that though […]
International Training and Education Centre for Health (I-TECH) has recommended that men who were partially circumcised during traditional male circumcision should get completely circumcised to enjoy the full health benefits of male circumcision. Making a presentation to chiefs and members of Parliament for Lilongwe at Lilongwe District Council on the Voluntary Male Medical Circumcision (VMMC) […]
Contrary to recent popular claims that male circumcision reduces HIV/Aids transmission by 60 per cent, a group of researchers has disputed the findings, saying the action will only increase the spread of HIV/Aids and can only reduce its transmission by 1.3 per cent at most. Researchers Gregory Boyle and George Hill in a study published […]
Malawi Catholic Bishops have endorsed government’s move to have male subjects circumcised as significant intervention towards the reduction of the spread of HIV/AIDS. Strong medical evidence suggests that men without a foreskin are 60 percent less likely to get HIV, the virus that can lead to deadly killer AIDS. But the Catholic Bishops at a […]