Uganda: Circumcision And HIV - What Was Tegulle's Point?

17 December 2009
opinion

In writing the opinion "Unmasking the lie: circumcision, sex and HIV/Aids" on December 12 in the Saturday Monitor, Mr Gawaya Tegulle was exercising his right to freedom of expression. He even acknowledged that while he respected the standpoint of the proponents of medical male circumcision for HIV prevention, he did not believe in this kind of thing.

According to Tegulle, "the truth behind circumcision is that it is just a new excuse invented by unscrupulous and incompetent scientists, plus bureaucrats in the United Nations, African governments and civil society to eat free money. They have not told us who did the research, what methodology they employed or which experimentation humans they used."

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