Traditional male circumcision remains a dangerous business
SOURCE: HSRC Review
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2008
TITLE AUTHOR(S): K.Peltzer
KEYWORDS: EASTERN CAPE PROVINCE, HEALTH, INITIATION RITUALS, MALE CIRCUMCISION, TRADITIONAL HEALERS
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Web link: http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/review/March-2010/i-could-make-it
Intranet: HSRC Library: shelf number 5391
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/5295
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/5295
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2008
TITLE AUTHOR(S): K.Peltzer
KEYWORDS: EASTERN CAPE PROVINCE, HEALTH, INITIATION RITUALS, MALE CIRCUMCISION, TRADITIONAL HEALERS
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Web link: http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/review/March-2010/i-could-make-it
Intranet: HSRC Library: shelf number 5391
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/5295
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/5295
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Abstract
Male circumcision using traditional methods is a dangerous, even life-threatening, rite of passage. In presumably the first study to test the feasibility of an intervention for safe traditional circumcision among the Xhosa in the Eastern Cape, the authors found weak support for encouraging this practice.-
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