{"id":6527,"date":"2015-04-22T12:53:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T12:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psi2030.wpengine.com\/?p=6527"},"modified":"2018-05-22T22:22:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T22:22:48","slug":"masvingo-records-highest-number-of-voluntary-medical-circumcision","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/news\/masvingo-records-highest-number-of-voluntary-medical-circumcision\/","title":{"rendered":"Masvingo records highest number of voluntary medical circumcision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to figures recently released by the National Aids Council (NAC), the number of men who went under the knife in Masvingo shot from 1 720 in 2012 to 10 986 in 2013 before reaching the 18 500 mark in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Medical circumcision has scientifically been proven to reduce chances of contracting HIV during sex by 60% among heterosexuals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a continual increase of males who were medically circumcised from 2012 to 2014. This was attributed to the increased roll-out of the programme with support from Population Services International and other partners,\u201d NAC provincial coordinator for Masvingo Evos Makoni said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.co.zw\/2015\/04\/22\/masvingo-records-highest-number-of-voluntary-medical-circumcision\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article on \u00a0NewsDay.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","related_practice_areas":[],"related_countries":[],"related_projects":[],"news_category":[],"class_list":["post-6527","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/6527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"related_practice_areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related_practice_areas?post=6527"},{"taxonomy":"related_countries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related_countries?post=6527"},{"taxonomy":"related_projects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related_projects?post=6527"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=6527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}