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Bush training for circumcision was over but as always Alpha stayed behind to avoid Morikebba and his boys. It had become impossible to stay...

Hawa* is determined her young daughter will not undergo female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), which is widespread in Somalia's self-declared...

Cross-border female genital mutilation / cutting (FGM/C) is on the rise in West Africa according to the UN, spurring the need to impose a region-wide...

Health facilities in Nyanza Province in western Kenya are struggling to meet the demand for medical male circumcisions since politicians threw their...

Thousands of young girls annually prepare for their initiation into a women’s secret association, Sande Society, which operates mostly in Liberia,...

Fewer Ethiopian parents are subjecting their daughters to female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM), according to an NGO campaigning to eradicate...

While researchers and advocates at the International AIDS Conference this week urged donors and governments to rapidly scale up male circumcision...

When Steve Matlhabela, 16, left his home on a chilly June morning to visit some relatives in a village not far from his in the rolling hills outside...

There is a growing belief among men in Swaziland that circumcision provides complete protection against HIV, a perception that worries...