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Sirkumsisi Perempuan Sebuah Tradisi Kuno yang Eksis dan Terlarang (Studi Kasus Mesir)
This study discusses women's circumcision. This study took a sample of women's circumcision that occurred in Egypt because women's circumcision tradition is done massively in their community.
Jati Pamungkas
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Christians’ Cut: Popular Religion and the Global Health Campaign for Medical Male Circumcision in Swaziland [PDF]
Swaziland faces one of the worst HIV epidemics in the world and is a site for the current global health campaign in sub-Saharan Africa to medically circumcise the majority of the male population.
Golomski, Casey, Nyawo, Sonene
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BACKGROUND:Voluntary medical male circumcision has been promoted in high HIV prevalence settings to prevent HIV acquisition in males. However, the uptake of circumcision in many sub-Saharan African settings remains low.
Katrina F Ortblad+5 more
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Factors associated with acceptability of child circumcision in Botswana -- a cross sectional survey
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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Exploring drivers for safe male circumcision: Experiences with health education and understanding of partial HIV protection among newly circumcised men in Wakiso, Uganda. [PDF]
INTRODUCTION:About 2.5 million men have voluntarily been circumcised since Uganda started implementing the WHO recommendation to scale up safe male circumcision to reduce HIV transmission.
Simon P S Kibira+4 more
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Circumcision is possibly the most frequently performed elective surgical procedure in men. It can simply be described as the excision of the preputium.
Burgu Berk+3 more
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Libertarianism and circumcision [PDF]
Despite the millenniums-old tradition in Abrahamic circles of removing the foreskin of a penis at birth, the involuntary and aggressive practice of circumcision must not be made an exception to the natural, negative right to self-ownership-a birthright which should prevent a parent from physically harming a child from the moment of birth going forward.
Patrick A. Testa, Walter E. Block
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The association of meatal stenosis and infant circumcision
Background. The association of meatal stenosis with age at circumcision is controversial. We noticed a high rate of meatal stenosis in a region where early circumcision is traditional.
Sibel Tiryaki, Yaşar Issi
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