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Circumcision: Perspective in a Nigerian teaching hospital

African Journal of Paediatric Surgery, 2013
Background: The practice and pattern of male infants circumcised is influenced by culture, religion and socio-economic classification. The debate about the benefits and risks of circumcision has made a hospital-based practice the most acceptable ...
L O Abdur-Rahman, A A Nasir, J O Adeniran   +2 more
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Male circumcision: a scientific perspective [PDF]

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2004
The health benefits of male circumcision are wide ranging In this issue, John Hutson has reiterated the conventional Western medical view that “the surgical argument for circumcision of all neonatal males at present is very weak” and he criticises many of the circumcisions performed in later childhood, without anaesthesia, as “physically cruel and ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Scale-Up of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Services for HIV Prevention — 12 Countries in Southern and Eastern Africa, 2013–2016

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2017
Countries in Southern and Eastern Africa have the highest prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the world; in 2015, 52% (approximately 19 million) of all persons living with HIV infection resided in these two regions.* Voluntary ...
J. Hines, Onkemetse Conrad Ntsuape, Kananga Malaba, Tiruneh Zegeye, Kennedy Serrem, -. ElijahOdoyo, June, R. Nyirenda, Wezi Msungama, Kondwani Nkanaunena, J. Come, M. Canda, Hermínio Nhaguiombe, E. Shihepo, T. BrigitteL., Zemburuka, Gram Mutandi, Emmanuel Yoboka, André H. Mbayiha, Hilda Maringa, A. Bere, J. Joseph, Lawrence, G. Lija, Daimon Simbeye, K. Kazaura, R. Mwiru, Stella Alamo, Talisuna, Joseph Lubwama, G. Kabuye, J. Zulu, O. Chituwo, Maybin, Mumba, S. Xaba, John Mandisarisa, Brittney N. Baack, Lawrence E. Hinkle, M. Jonathan, Grund, S. Davis, C. Toledo   +42 more
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Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 435-457, August 2026.
Recent scholarship often sees high‐born monastics and clerics in early Christian England as part of the aristocratic class. Modern identity theories, however, suggest that social identity could be dynamic, situational, processual and discursive. In light of this concept, the present article reads Felix’s Life of Guthlac as a text that constructs an ...
Lek Hang Chan
wiley   +1 more source

Is traditional male circumcision effective as an HIV prevention strategy? Evidence from Lesotho.

PLoS ONE, 2017
In many developing countries, male circumcision has been promoted as an effective HIV prevention strategy, and medical randomized controlled trials have indeed shown a causal link.
Elisa M Maffioli
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Increasing voluntary medical male circumcision uptake among adult men in Tanzania

AIDS (London), 2017
Objective: We evaluated a demand-creation intervention to increase voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) uptake among men aged 20–34 years in Tanzania, to maximise short-term impact on HIV incidence.
M. Wambura, H. Mahler, J. Grund, N. Larke, G. Mshana, E. Kuringe, M. Plotkin, G. Lija, M. Makokha, F. Terris-Prestholt, R. Hayes, J. Changalucha, H. Weiss   +12 more
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Evidence that promotion of male circumcision did not lead to sexual risk compensation in prioritized Sub-Saharan countries

PLoS ONE, 2017
Background WHO and UNAIDS prioritized 14 eastern and southern African countries with high HIV and low male circumcision prevalence for a voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) scale-up in 2007.
Chyun-Fung Shi, Michael Li, J. Dushoff
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Male circumcision for HIV prevention: a prospective study of complications in clinical and traditional settings in Bungoma, Kenya

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2008
OBJECTIVE: Male circumcision reduces the risk of HIV acquisition by approximately 60%. Male circumcision services are now being introduced in selected populations in sub-Saharan Africa and further interventions are being planned.
Robert C Bailey, Omar Egesah, Stephanie Rosenberg   +2 more
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Circumventing the Urologist: A Case of Poorly Executed Self-Circumcision

Journal of Urological Surgery, 2016
Circumcision is a relatively brief and safe procedure when performed by a medical professional. Recently, clamp-assisted circumcisions in the adult male have gained increased interest due to potential public health benefits.
Timothy Rogers, Omar Mostafa, Hesham Mostafa, Tim Suttle   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Substantial but spatially heterogeneous progress in male circumcision for HIV prevention in South Africa

Communications Medicine
Background Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) reduces the risk of male HIV acquisition by 60%. Programmes to provide VMMCs for HIV prevention have been introduced in sub-Saharan African countries with high HIV burden.
Matthew L. Thomas, Khangelani Zuma, Dayanund Loykissoonlal, Ziphozonke Bridget Dube, Peter Vranken, Sarah E. Porter, Katharine Kripke, Thapelo Seatlhodi, Gesine Meyer-Rath, Leigh F. Johnson, Jeffrey W. Imai-Eaton   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source