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Relief for men with fatal bleeding disorder

Kenya: Martin Munene is a happy young man. For years, the Form Four student at Kibumbu Secondary School in Meru has been subjected to ridicule. Not any more.

His peers who underwent circumcision in their teens thought he was not a man enough. What they didn’t realise was that if Martin underwent the cut without close monitoring by a medical expert, the consequences would have been disastrous, probably fatal.

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