Clean Cut Needed

The New York Times, reporting from Reuters, informs us that

Circumcision Training Urged

Health workers in sub-Saharan Africa need more training and better equipment to circumcise men and boys safely for H.I.V. prevention, according to a study by the World Health Organization that was published on Monday. As many as 35 percent of males circumcised by traditional practitioners in the Bungoma district of Kenya experienced bleeding, infection, excessive pain, erectile dysfunction and other complications from the procedure, researchers found. Although male circumcision is all but universal in Bungoma, the study said that many clinicians there lacked sharp and clean instruments and few were formally trained.

I have blogged previously that this Jewish religious ritual obligation does have up-to-date health benefits (here and here) as well as opposition to circumcision and even the assumed connection between Madonna and circumcision.

I know it is a sore (sorry, for the pun) point among certain people but if it works, why not?

Maybe we need to send in a mohel or two or 100 to help out.