Colloquium on Medical Male Circumcision
WiSER invites you to
A Colloquium on Medical Male Circumcision
The event will be livestreamed here.
The panel will include Louise Vincent, an expert on sexuality and initiation rites; Francois Venter, Deputy Director of the Wits Institute for Sexual and Reproductive Health; Duane Blaauw from the Wits’ Centre for Health Policy; gender activist and analyst Nomboniso Gasa; Dan Ncayiyana, former editor of the South African Medical Journal and researcher at the Human Sciences Research Centre; and Gcobani Qambela, a PhD candidate on the subject at Rhodes University.
Currently touted as a way of reducing HIV infections, medical male circumcision is receiving a lot of attention and funding from the South African government as well as health organisations like Brothers for Life and the Treatment Action Campaign. However, serious concern has emerged around the profile which circumcision is receiving as the way to end the HIV/Aids epidemic.
Join us for what promises to be a stimulating dialogue on medical male circumcision, the role that this procedure is playing in South Africa, and the myriad concerns of experts in the field.
See here for the poster.