Circumcision a racist experiment: Study

A CRITICAL appraisal has dismissed World Health Organisation (WHO)-recommended campaigns to circumcise millions of African boys and men to reduce HIV transmission as mere systemic racism and “neo-colonialism” than sound scientific research.

Published in the Developing World Bioethics, the study was conducted by VMMC Experience Project along with other legal and medical experts from the United Kingdom, United States, Cameroon, Zimbabwe and South Africa.

It examined the history and politics of these circumcision campaigns in the context of race and colonialism and found that they had been started in haste and without sufficient contextual research.

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