Botswana lags behind SA in male circumcision
Thursday, April 03, 2014

Almost half of the 12,896 men interviewed in the recently released South African National HIV Prevalence, Incidence and Behavioural Survey, had been circumcised.
Findings indicated that almost half (46.4%) of the male respondents aged 15 years and above were circumcised. By comparison, the last available data for Botswana indicates that an average of 24.3% male respondents aged 15 and over are circumcised.
We duly congratulate them to have ousted the long ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from power. Prior to taking power from the BDP, the coalition had made several election promises that are credited for influencing change and swaying the people to vote in its favour.The party had made an undertaking, which its leader and President Duma Boko consistently bellowed in his campaign trail. These undertakings were promises that Batswana would be...