Dear editor, The issue of circumcision in Rwanda is slowly dying down. After revelation that male circumcision greatly reduced chances of catching HIV/AIDS, a talk about the practice was dominating street talk in every town of Rwanda. But what followed, there is no more talk about circumcision and even those who had registered with some hospitals for the exercise cowardiced and never went for the appointments.
Dear editor,
The issue of circumcision in Rwanda is slowly dying down. After revelation that male circumcision greatly reduced chances of catching HIV/AIDS, a talk about the practice was dominating street talk in every town of Rwanda. But what followed, there is no more talk about circumcision and even those who had registered with some hospitals for the exercise cowardiced and never went for the appointments.
This gives an already predicted situation, where circumcision in a society, has always been regarded as a right of passage in some communities but not in all communities.
Rwandan culture has not exposed its people to circumcision, a thing that discourages them to go for it.
In fact some of us fear the exercise to the extent that we are ready to die of HIV/AIDS, if that is what it means. How can one go for circumcision at the age of 40 plus. It is so scaring and if we have managed to survive for this entire long, we can stay the way we are. After all it is not a hundred percent preventive.
Butare