Changing partners without changing yourself won't solve your problems. You can't escape yourself. Your patterns will follow you, bad habits donโt die until killed, If you don't fix your issues, you'll keep faulting others and wasting your time.๐
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Yvonne Namaganda was only 10 years old when a fire broke out in the Budo junior school dormitory. Instead of running for her own safety, she chose courage and helped rescue as many fellow students as she could. Sadly, she did not survive.
Today, she would have been 26 years old.
Yvonne deserves to be remembered and celebrated. Wherever you are, your bravery lives on โ you are a true hero. โค๏ธ
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Why is the circumcision of young boys continuing unabated?
Let's examine what global and local policies say about safe male circumcision.
In 2007, the World Health Organisation recommended this intervention in East and Southern Africa, following scientific studies showing that it reduces HIV transmission by 60%. The procedure, the policy highlights, is voluntary. By 2023, two countries suggested adding infant circumcision to national programs as a sustainable measure, but WHO guidelines remained strictโdefining SMC intervention as a voluntary procedure for adolescents aged 15 years and older.
What about Uganda? In Uganda, SMC service providers are not allowed to advertise or influence people into the procedure.
So, where did the idea of circumcising young boys come from, and who sold it to parents?
Locally, the 2010 Ministry of Health policy integrates voluntary medical male circumcision as a preventive strategy against HIV. This policy requires informed consent. It also allows parents to consent on behalf of their neonates and young boys.
A few Ugandan authorities committed to scaling up circumcision coverage to 40% within five years. This is where infants and young boys became the target, with service providers brainwashing their parents into circumcising themโdenying these children the right to decide, in the future, whether they and their partners want the procedure or not. Kino kyetuyita okudduka noyita wosula.
Circumcision reduces the risks of cervical cancer and chlamydia infection (which causes infertility) among female partners of uncircumcised men. But whether to circumcise or not should be a decision made by both partners. Campaigns promoting condom use, vaccination against HPV, and PrEP ( latest) are available and effective too ( if we are addressing HIV and cancer).
As a parent, you can consent on behalf of your child. But this decision violates international human rights standards, specifically the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Remember, Uganda ratified this convention in 1990. The expectation is that the Ministry of Health should intervene in practices that are prejudicial to children. Such irreversible procedures should only be performed when medically necessary and when consent cannot wait. Why is the circumcision of young boys unabated?
We shall discuss female genital mutilation later, but allow me to ask: if this were done to infant girls and young girls because it prevents something, would you allow it? Why is the same principle of bodily integrity denied to boys? A child's right to bodily autonomy should supersede parental preferences.