In an article in the latest issue of the journal Future HIV Therapy, they have rejected claims that calls for circumcision as a prevention strategy are based on incomplete evidence, and premature.

Days after Prime Minister Odinga rallied community leaders to advocate for male circumcision, hospitals are struggling to cope with the large number of people seeking the service

Ugandan authorities have launched a mass circumcision drive with the hope it will reduce HIV/Aids rates in the east African country.

Circumcision appears to offer men even greater protection against the AIDS virus than thought and also partially shield them against a common sexually-transmitted disease, two studies presented at the world AIDS conference said Thursday.

The most recent evidence came from trials in South Africa, Kenya and Uganda between 2005 and 2006. All the three studies established that male circumcision provided up to 60% protection against HIV transmission from women to men.

Since a study by Bailey in 2006 found the operation drops the HIV infection rate in men by 60 per cent, the procedure most often performed at birth has become a popular elective surgery among grown men in southern Africa.

The soldiers in the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) will be the first men to benefit from a government policy to use male circumcision as a tool in the fight against HIV/AIDS...

As the second school holiday period draws nearer, the Ministry of Health announced yesterday that the hospital will conduct its circumcision service for children starting June 14 till 29.

Sitting underneath the bright murals at a clinic, 22-year-old Elijah Ochanda gestures at his shorts and explains: "When they remove this thing, it makes you safer."

The campaign to have male circumcision as one of the major tools in the fight against the spread of HIV is gaining momentum by the day.