circumcision

Team leader for male circumcision mobilisers in the Harry Gwala District, Thandeka Zondo, has a mammoth task of convincing men in the Harry Gwala District to undergo medical circumcision, a topic that is still taboo in most areas under the district as it is dominated by rural areas.
 
Zondo, from Bulwer, is the leader of five mobilisers working for CareWorks, a non-governmental organisation that makes a tangible impact on the degenerative effects that HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis have on individuals, organisations and communities.
 

United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), among others, has released research studies which provide evidence that safe, high quality voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) services performed by trained healthcare professionals in low resource settings can be implemented and sustained at scale and have the potential to significantly prevent new HIV infections in adolescent and adult men.