December 7, 2007

OR YOU COULD JUST NOT HAVE SEX WITH MEN OR USE IV DRUGS... (via Kevin Whited):

Circumcision diary (Kennedy Gondwe, 11/30/07, BBC)

Around one million Zambians - which includes 17% of the adult population - are believed to have HIV/Aids, a fact marked by World Aids Day on Saturday.

After experts from the United Nations backed male circumcision as a way of reducing the chances of getting HIV, the BBC's reporter in Zambia's capital Lusaka, Kennedy Gondwe, decided to undergo the procedure himself.

It should be noted that this was Mr Gondwe's personal decision, not the BBC's, and that circumcision does not give immunity to HIV/Aids.

Today is a very special day for me. I've just woken up and am going for an HIV test prior to my circumcision.

Trials show circumcision halves HIV infection in heterosexual men
I have been thinking about being circumcised from the time that I was young, but unfortunately I have not had time to do it.

I have always wanted to be circumcised as a way of fighting the HIV/Aids scourge.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 7, 2007 6:23 AM
Comments

I've heard of "cutting edge journalism" before, but . . . eeewww! (shudders)

Posted by: Mike Morley at December 7, 2007 11:02 AM

I hope they will give equal publicity if he contracts HIV, and follow the course of the disease. But it's quite possible he won't, because with his many HIV tests he seems quite careful, and we have no idea how sexually active he is, or with whom.

Instead I guess they'll run a story on each anniversary of the poster boy's circumcision saying how he's still "protected".

Posted by: Hugh Young at December 8, 2007 5:31 PM
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