Kampala — Uganda has registered a drastic decline in the number of voluntary medical male circumcisions (VMMC) from 900,000 procedures conducted annually in the past years to 556,000 in 2015.
Circumcision has been widely favoured in the prevention of HIV/Aids after evidence from previous studies conducted in Uganda, South Africa and Kenya showed that it could reduce a man's risk of contracting HIV/Aids by about 60 per cent.
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