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Zambia: BBC Reporter Undergoes Circumcision LUSAKA, Zambia, Nov. 30, 2007 — A BBC correspondent went through male circumcision at a PSI center here and recorded the experience in a radio report. Kennedy Gondwe, a BBC reporter based here, went through voluntary HIV counseling and testing as well as male circumcision counseling at a PSI’s New Start center. He then immediately undertook the procedure, which took about 30 minutes. Less than an hour later he drove himself home. The Society for Family Health, PSI’s affiliate in Zambia, performed the first male circumcision (MC) procedure at the YWCA New Start on Sept. 14 in a room converted for the sole purpose of performing MC. It was the culmination of a nine-month long gestation and development process: planning meetings, procurement, warehousing, transporting, recruitment, training in MC and MC counseling and building renovations. Clinical trials in South Africa, Uganda and Kenya have estimated that a circumcised heterosexual man is approximately 50% less likely to contract HIV than an uncircumcised man. SFH's pilot project is being run in partnership with the Zambian Ministry of Health, the University Teaching Hospital and JHPIEGO, and is a Clinton Global Initiative commitment made in 2006.
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