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İstanbul Medical Journal, 2023 Introduction:Circumcision is one of the oldest and most frequently performed surgeries worldwide. The age of circumcision varies according to the country and region.
Muhammer Ergenç +1 more
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Student's Journal of Health Research Africa, 2023 Background: Objective: To determine youth’s knowledge about safe male circumcision as well as assess their attitude towards utilization of safe male circumcision services and also determine the practices in utilization of safe male circumcision at ...
Jonathan Econi
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Puzzles in modern biology. I. Male sterility, failure reveals design [PDF]
F1000Research 5:2088 (2016), 2016 Many human males produce dysfunctional sperm. Various plants frequently abort pollen. Hybrid matings often produce sterile males. Widespread male sterility is puzzling. Natural selection prunes reproductive failure. Puzzling failure implies something that we do not understand about how organisms are designed.
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A multi-level model for estimating region-age-time-type specific male circumcision coverage from household survey and health system data in South Africa [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) reduces the risk of male HIV acquisition by 60%. Programmes to provide male circumcision (MC) to prevent HIV infection have been introduced in sub-Saharan African countries with high HIV burden. While large-scale provision of MMC is recent, traditional MC has long been conducted as part of male coming-of-age ...
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Critical evaluation of arguments opposing male circumcision: A systematic review
Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2019 To systematically evaluate evidence against male circumcision (MC).
B. Morris, S. Moreton, J. Krieger
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"After my husband's circumcision, I know that I am safe from diseases": women's attitudes and risk perceptions towards male circumcision in Iringa, Tanzania. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 While male circumcision reduces the risk of female-to-male HIV transmission and certain sexually transmitted infections (STIs), there is little evidence that circumcision provides women with direct protection against HIV.
Erica H Layer +5 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2019 Background: Male circumcision (MC) is proven to substantially reduce men's risk of a number of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). We conducted a detailed systematic review of the scientific literature to determine the relationship between MC and ...
B. Morris +6 more
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Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2019 UNAIDS has recommended that in 14 countries across sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA), 90% of men aged 10 to 29 years should be circumcised by 2021 to help reduce transmission of HIV.
Samuel Ensor +3 more
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Factors associated with acceptability of child circumcision in Botswana -- a cross sectional survey
BMC Public Health, 2016 Background Safe male child circumcision has been recently adopted as a potential strategy to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission in later life in Botswana. Methods Data used was derived from a cross-sectional survey, the Botswana AIDS Impact Survey (BAIS) IV ...
Mpho Keetile, Motsholathebe Bowelo
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Global Public Health, 2018 In December of 2014, an anonymous working group under the United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a draft of the first-ever federal recommendations regarding male circumcision.
M. Frisch, B. Earp
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