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Boys wait to be circumcised at a Marie Stopes mobile clinic at Migosi health centre, kisumu, Nyanza. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
    KISUMU

    The reproductive health NGO, Marie Stopes Kenya (MSK), has started a mobile circumcision pilot project in the western, largely non-circumcising province of Nyanza.


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    IRIN/PlusNews recently visited one MSK mobile clinic in a suburb of Kisumu, the capital of Nyanza, where a large number of men and boys turned up for the procedure.

    Kenya is preparing to roll out a national campaign to promote male circumcision as a tool in the prevention of HIV/AIDS, following studies in 2006 that showed the procedure to reduce a man’s risk of contracting HIV by as much as 60 percent.

    Links:
    At the Cutting edge - male circumcision and HIV
    Kenya: Government to roll out male circumcision

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