Ugandan men getting circumcised
Growing numbers of Ugandan men are being circumcised, after medical research showed it could halve the HIV infection rate among heterosexual men.
A Ugandan paper reports that last year of 2,500 people circumcised at various clinics, half of them were male adults, compared to less than 400 in 2005.
A hospital official said they were increasing their provision to cope.
Uganda is often held up as a model of how to fight HIV/Aids, with infection rates falling from 15 to 5%.
Studies conducted by the US National Institutes of Health last year, found new HIV infections among circumcised heterosexual men in Uganda and Kenya had dropped by approximately 50%. the rest
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