Women in Kisumu have been asked to encourage their men to go for Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC).
Recently, Kisumu Medical and Education Trust (KMET) embarked on sensitising men from the lakeside region to go for the voluntary cut.
Speaking during a consultative meeting with Kisumu-based journalists at KMET premises on Friday, director Peter Apamo urged women to encourage the men in their lives to undergo the cut, which has not been part of the lakeside culture.
“Circumcision reduces the chances of getting infections such as HIV and Aids, Syphilis, Gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted infections and diseases,” he said.
“This is the more reason why we need to encourage the men to go for the cut,” said Apamo.
The sexual reproductive health worker, however, dismissed the illusion that circumcision prevents HIV/Aids and maintained that men still need to adopt the prevention measures such as abstinence, faithfulness and use of condoms.
Kisumu’s Port Florence hospital medical officer Polycarp Koyanda said that the male foreskin causes cervical cancer which is a major killer disease in women.
“As men, we need to secure our women from infections by being responsible enough to go for the cut.
“Let us save the women and help eradicate the rising cases of the disease,” said Koyanda.