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A recent article in Lancet published the results of a study data from two clinical trials in Africa that suggest that circumcision reduces a man’s risk of contracting HIV by as much as 65 percent. Going by the articles in Uganda and Kenyan newspapers, this caused quite some excitement.
In nearly every Kenyan, Tanzanian or Ugandan district you go to, you will find a small, relatively prosperous group of people who are resented by the rest. They will usually be called “those people”. They will be accused of being aloof and untrustworthy. When a child goes missing in the neighborhood, the local fortuneteller will claim she was abducted by “those people” who offered her up for sacrificial slaughter to the gods so they might become rich.
Yes, the common view is that girls in East Africa are overly sexualized. Yes, too many magazines and television adverts depict light-skinned and slim women.
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