Zimbabwe: Circumcision Corrects Abnormalities

24 November 2015

A number of men with penile abnormalities are having the condition corrected during the circumcision procedure and getting a chance to lead a normal sexual experience.

Dr Shingi Makamure - a consultant with the Zimbabwe Community Health Intervention Research Project (ZICHIRE) - an organisation working with Government to scale up male circumcision in the country said penile conditions such as phimosis (the inability to retract the foreskin) and paraphimosis (a painful inability to pull the retracted foreskin back down) were common among men.

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