{"id":5971,"date":"2014-05-07T00:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psi2030.wpengine.com\/?p=5971"},"modified":"2018-05-22T22:24:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T22:24:27","slug":"selling-circumcision-for-hiv-prevention-at-the-epicenter-of-the-global-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/news\/selling-circumcision-for-hiv-prevention-at-the-epicenter-of-the-global-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling Circumcision for HIV Prevention at the Epicenter of the Global Epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Zimbabwe’s most famous poet and musician, Albert Nyathi<\/a>, decided to get circumcised, everyone had an opinion.<\/p>\n

For Albert, poetry has always come first, but now he acts as a local champion of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC), hoping to inspire the men of his country — both sons and fathers alike — to undergo the procedure. When he was growing up, his father and uncle were polygamists, a characteristic of a much older society and one that flies in the face of a global HIV\/AIDS epidemic.<\/p>\n

Read the full blog entry on the Huffington Post.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","related_countries":[],"related_projects":[],"news_category":[],"health-area":[],"capabilities-and-cross-cutting":[],"class_list":["post-5971","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t