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    "id": 55684,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Gesami",
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        "legal_name": "James Ondicho Gesami",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I may not be able to tell what fraction of Kenyans undergo circumcision. I want to inform the Member that as a policy for infant circumcision, some of the work that will need to be done in the country will include some of the following:- (i) They will need consultation with diverse communities to assess the knowledge and acceptability of infant circumcision. In communities where circumcision is the norm in the adolescence years, circumcision of infants may not be widely acceptable. (ii) Determination by the Director of Public Health and the Director of Medical Services and professional bodies as to who should be qualified to perform early infant circumcision and in what settings. (iii) We will need to establish in-service and pre-service early infant male circumcision training programmes. That requires funding. (iv) Piloting of early infant male circumcision programmes to demonstrate safety, acceptability and post-effectiveness. (v) There will be need for integration of early infant male circumcision with maternal child health, immunization, growth monitoring and well baby check up programmes. (vi) The development of systems for monitoring and assessing the quality of early infant male circumcision programmes. This requires funding and we will not be able to undertake it as a policy at the moment."
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