A NEWLY released pilot study looking at initiates and initiation ceremonies in the Eastern Cape has probed young Xhosa men’s attitudes towards sex and HIV/Aids.
The report, released this week by the Medical Research Council, was carried out last December in an
effort to understand the initiation and circumcision rite and to find ways to develop a tool to introduce HIV education.
Professor Priscilla Reddy, head of the MRC’s HIV lead programmes, said 114 initiates were included in this pilot study which covered the rural areas of Butterworth, Mount Ayliff and Ntabankulu. She said the pilot study had paved the way for a bigger study to cover most of the Eastern Cape later this year.read more
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