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 ...

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.

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 ...