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A youth undergoes a cut during a voluntary male circumcision exercise at Masogo Dispensary in Muhoroni on April 19, 2018. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]
About 35,000 underage boys have been circumcised without parental knowledge or consent in the ongoing HIV prevention drive.
A study by Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) and the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE) of US, reports that boys, some aged under 10 years, have been circumcised without the mandatory parental consent.
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