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Unregulated Initiation

33 deaths in Mpumalanga due to unregulated initiation. Thousands of boys in traditional South Africa are sent (and often willingly go) to initiation schools to mark the transition between boyhood and manhood, undergoing ritual circumcision and being instructed about their social responsibilities.  These ritual circumcisions are not performed by medically trained people, which leads to excessive bleeding.

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