Over 2 million to be circumcised by 2012

KIGALI - The National AIDS Control Commission has set a target of having at least 2 million men circumcised by the year 2012, as a way of curbing the transmission of HIV/AIDS. The move came after the government supported the idea of mass male circumcision as a way of reducing the spread of HIV and other Sexually Transmitted Diseases, upon recommendation from the World Health Organization, based on research that circumcised men have a 60 percent-risk free chance of not acquiring the virus during sexual intercourse.