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Exploring factors influencing integration of traditional and medical male circumcision methods at Ingquza Hill Local Municipality, Eastern Cape: A socio-ecological perspective

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2019
Background: Medical male circumcision (MMC) and traditional male circumcision (TMC) are reportedly having negative and positive outcomes in the Eastern Cape province.
Sandile Prusente, Nelisiwe Khuzwayo, Yandisa Sikweyiya   +2 more
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Male Circumcision Reduces Penile HPV Incidence and Persistence: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya

Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, 2021
Background: Male circumcision reduces the risk of human immunodeficiency virus infection in men. We assessed the effect of male circumcision on the incidence and natural history of human papillomavirus (HPV) in a randomized clinical trial in Kisumu ...
Jennifer S. Smith, Danielle M. Backes, M. Hudgens, Wenwen Mei, H. Chakraborty, Eliane Rohner, S. Moses, K. Agot, C. Meijer, R. Bailey   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Key challenges to voluntary medical male circumcision uptake in traditionally circumcising settings of Machinga district in Malawi

BMC Public Health, 2021
Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) is becoming more popular as an important HIV prevention strategy. Malawi, with a high HIV and AIDS prevalence rate of 8.8% and a low male circumcision prevalence rate of 28% in 2016, is one of the priority ...
Rodney Masese, G. Mwalabu, P. Petrucka, P. Mapulanga   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Impact of male circumcision on risk of HIV infection in men in a changing epidemic context – systematic review and meta‐analysis

Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2020
WHO/UNAIDS recommended Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in 2007 based on systematic review of observational studies prior to 1999 and three randomized controlled trials (RCTs).
Timothy Farley, J. Samuelson, M. K. Grabowski, W. Ameyan, Ronald H. Gray, R. Baggaley   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Religious circumcision (Khatna) and circumcision mishaps in Kashmiri children

African Journal of Paediatric Surgery, 2022
Background: Male circumcision is recommended practice in Muslim tradition and one of the oldest operations performed all over the world. Male circumcision is universal in our Muslim-dominated valley of Kashmir for religious reasons.
Yaqoob Hassan, Humayoon Rasool, Ajaz Ahmad Rather, Younis Ahmad, Insha Rasool   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Circumcision in childhood and male sexual function: a blessing or a curse?

International journal of impotence research, 2020
Male circumcision (MC) is the first planned surgical procedure ever performed. Nowadays many of these procedures are not necessarily carried out in a medical environment, therefore the real number remains unknown but it is estimated that one third of the
Beatriz Bañuelos Marco, Jessica Leigh García Heil   +1 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Demographic Differences in Circumcision Satisfaction among U.S. Males

Men's Health Journal, 2021
Introduction: Male circumcision involves the partial or total removal of the prepuce (foreskin) from the penis, and it is the most common surgical procedure performed on infants in the USA.
Lauren Sardi, William Jellison
doaj   +1 more source

Techniques of male circumcision

Journal of Surgical Technique and Case Report, 2013
Male circumcision is a controversial subject in surgical practice. There are, however, clear surgical indications of this procedure. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends newborn male circumcision for its preventive and public health benefits that has been shown to outweigh the risks of newborn male circumcision.
Abdullahi Abdulwahab-Ahmed, Ismaila Arzika Mungadi   +1 more
openaire   +4 more sources

The perceptions on male circumcision as a preventive measure against HIV infection and considerations in scaling up of the services: a qualitative study among police officers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

BMC Public Health, 2012
Background In recent randomized controlled trials, male circumcision has been proven to complement the available biomedical interventions in decreasing HIV transmission from infected women to uninfected men. Consequently, Tanzania is striving to scale-up
Tarimo Edith AM, Francis Joel M, Kakoko Deodatus, Munseri Patricia, Bakari Muhammad, Sandstrom Eric   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Circumcision of male children for reduction of future risk for HIV: acceptability among HIV serodiscordant couples in Kampala, Uganda. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
The ultimate success of medical male circumcision for HIV prevention may depend on targeting male infants and children as well as adults, in order to maximally reduce new HIV infections into the future.We conducted a cross-sectional study among ...
Kenneth K Mugwanya, Christopher Whalen, Connie Celum, Edith Nakku-Joloba, Elly Katabira, Jared M Baeten   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source