In South Africa, the tradition of young men going to the mountain for circumcision, particularly during winter, is deeply rooted in Xhosa culture. This rite of passage is known as "Ukwaluka" and ...

South Africa. Tel.: +27 (11) 989 9700, Fax: +27 (11) 989 9762, [email protected] Medical circumcision has been demonstrated conclusively to be safe and partially effective in reducing HIV ...

Somewhere in South Africa’s Cape Province, 20 boys have been hospitalised because some quacks botched their circumcision. More outrageous is that four of those boys will have their organs ...

New regulations in South Africa are set to formalise traditional healing practices, addressing the legitimacy of medical ...

The role of male circumcision in reducing sexually transmitted ... This question could not be addressed by the South African trial because HPV detection was only conducted at one point in time.

Because these factors, too, might have affected the spread of HIV, three independent groups of scientists launched rigorous studies of circumcision's effects in Uganda, Kenya, and South Africa.