Circumcision – Media Watch
By JournAIDS Does South Africa know where its discarded foreskins go?
The Medical Rights Advocacy Network fears that once the small strips of tissue are separated from their young hosts they could be illegally sold and exported to global cosmetic companies.
Continue reading | 10 August 2011 | 0 Comments | Tags: aaron motsoaledi, ethics, foreskin, medical rights advocacy network, neonatal circumcision, policy
By JournAIDS The New Age reports on the relative success of this year’s so-called 'circumcision season,' documenting both the good and the bad.
Continue reading | 8 August 2011 | 0 Comments | Tags: bushbuckridge, circumcision season, culture and hiv, deaths, limpopo, the new age, traditional circumcision, traditional leaders
By Kim Johnson An article appearing in the Mail & Guardian makes sensationalist and incorrect comments around a study of circumcision and HIV prevention.
Continue reading | 29 July 2011 | 0 Comments | Tags: auvert study, circumcision, clinical trials, condoms, ethics, foreskin, hiv prevention, journalism, mail & guardian, microbicide gels, news media, orange farm, sensationalist
By JournAIDS In the wake of tragic but anticipated reports of injury and death linked to traditional initiation in general and circumcision in particular, communities are welcoming home circumcised men who left but a month ago as boys.
Continue reading | 26 July 2011 | 0 Comments | Tags: circumcision, circumcision season, deaths, news media, the new age, traditional circumcision
By JournAIDS Three years and more than 20 000 circumcisions later the Orange Farm mass circumcision project has seen a 75% reduction in new HIV infections and a 55% reduction in HIV prevalence.
Continue reading | 21 July 2011 | 0 Comments | Tags: business day, circumcision, hiv incidence, hiv prevention, ias, orange farm
