Geneva, Sept 2 (ANI): WHO (World Health Organisation) researchers have found that African health workers needed better tools and more training to circumcise men and boys safely for HIV prevention and other ailments.

The research found that due to the traditional ways of circumcision, as many as 35 percent of males developed "shocking" complications like bleeding, infection, excessive pain and erectile dysfunction from the procedure, reported The News.

Six percent of the patients had life-long problems after faulty circumcision, said the study findings and added that "Other common adverse effects reported were pain upon urination, incomplete circumcision requiring re-circumcision, and laceration."

Although male circumcision is universally practised in Bungoma, the study said many clinicians there lacked sharp and clean instruments and few were formally trained. Even in public clinics, the complication rate was 18 per cent.

The findings, published on Monday in the WHO Bulletin, raised questions about whether the availability of male circumcision should be extended quickly as part of a strategy to fight HIV backed by the WHO and its sister UN agency UNAIDS.

In their report prepared after the study, the researchers said: "Extensive training and resources will be necessary to build the capacity of health facilities in sub-Saharan Africa before safe circumcision services can be aggressively promoted for HIV prevention." (ANI)

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London, Sep 26 (ANI): Hollywood actress Dita Von Tesse has offered troubled popstar Amy Winehouse a makeover.

The burlesque star wants to help the 'Back to Black' hitmaker and wants to start with her wardrobe.

She also wants to change the singer's iconic beehive hairstyle and thick make up.

"No matter how much she breaks down, she still has the beehive of sorts and the outfits and eyeliner. When I see pictures of her I wish I could tidy her up a bit," The Daily Express quoted Dita Von Teese, as saying.

Meanwhile, Amy Winehouse omitted her own birthday party as she realized how drugs have ravaged her appearance. (ANI)

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Melbourne, October 1 (ANI): Despite admitting to having put crushed glass in her estranged husband's sandwiches, an Australian woman has avoided jail.

Lynette Margaret Quessy, 50, of Sandy Bay in Tasmania has been sentenced to a nine-month prison term suspended for three years by the Supreme Court in Hobart.

Quessy and her husband Tim Nash were separated, but still living together in October and November the previous year.

She smashed up a fluorescent light with a meat cleaver, and put the glass in Nash's lunch five or six times.

Nash became suspicious when he discovered glass fragments in his lunch the second time, and started keeping his sandwiches in a freezer.

It was when he found a container of crushed glass in the pantry that he went to police, The Mercury reported.

Justice Shan Tennent said that Quessy's police interview made it clear that her thought processes were "disorganised".

She had told police that she wanted to hurt her husband because he had hurt her, while the court was told that the woman was concerned about her husband's drinking, and believed that he would get help for his other problems if she made him sick.

"Those thought processes are, to say the least, bizarre," news.com.au quoted Justice Tennent as saying.

The court finally suspended the jail term for three years. (ANI)

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