Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 15, Issue 29 , Pages 22-32 , May 2007

Roundtable: “You Can Also Cut My Finger!”: Social Construction of Male Circumcision in West Africa, A Case Study of Senegal and Guinea-Bissau

  • Cheikh Ibrahima Niang

      Affiliations

    • Social Anthropologist, Senior Lecturer and Researcher, University Cheikh Anta Diop and Coordinator of the Sahara Programme for West Africa, Dakar, Senegal
  • ,
  • Hamadou Boiro

      Affiliations

    • PhD student, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

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Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 15, Issue 29 , Pages 22-32 , May 2007