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Preventive Newborn Male Circumcision: What Is the Child's Best Interest? [PDF]

, 2017
Preventive newborn male circumcision has been at the center of scientific debate for many years. The reason for promoting preventive newborn male circumcision, is the reduction of the incidence of UTIs (in the first six months of life), penile cancer ...
Di Pietro ML (ORCID:0000-0002-3893-8788), González-Melado FJ, Panocchia N., Poscia A (ORCID:0000-0002-7616-3389), Teleman AA   +4 more
core  

Utilizing Indigenous Cultural Resources in Challenging Gender‐Based Violence: A Case of the Zezuru of Zvimba, Zimbabwe

Religion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 5-6, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Gender‐based violence is a pervasive social issue in Africa. Some religious and cultural beliefs and practices inform gendered social norms that perpetuate and promote gender‐based violence. African religion and culture encompass several harmful practices that expose women to gender‐based violence.
Fungai Chirongoma
wiley   +1 more source

Implications of male circumcision for women in Papua New Guinea: a transformational grounded theory study

BMC Women's Health, 2017
Background Male circumcision reduces the risk of female-to-male transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and is being explored for HIV prevention in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
Michelle Redman-MacLaren, Jane Mills, Rachael Tommbe, David MacLaren, Rick Speare, William J. H. McBride   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Partition test and sexual motivation in male mice [PDF]

arXiv, 2007
Theoretical analysis of own and literature investigations of sexual motivation with the use of the partition test [Kudryavtseva, 1987, 1994] in male mice was carried out. It has been shown that appearance of a receptive female in the neighboring compartment of common cage separated by perforated transparent partition produces the enhancement of ...
arxiv  

Youth Traditional Male Circumcision (TMC) as a tool to fight HIV/AIDS in South Africa: Implications for Human Rights and Social Work Practice [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Traditional Male Circumcision (TMC) as a feasible tool to increase HIV/AIDS response needs to be validated and advocated to especially its adherents who, from time immemorial, hold to the fact that its goal has been to achieve some socio-cultural goal ...
Simon Murote Kang’ethe
doaj   +1 more source

Age Targeting of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Programs Using the Decision Makers’ Program Planning Toolkit (DMPPT) 2.0

PLoS ONE, 2016
Background Despite considerable efforts to scale up voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) for HIV prevention in priority countries over the last five years, implementation has faced important challenges.
K. Kripke, M. Opuni, M. Schnure, S. Sgaier, D. Castor, J. Reed, E. Njeuhmeli, J. Stover   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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, Herminio Nhaguiombe, E. Shihepo, T. BrigitteL., Zemburuka, Gram Mutandi, Emmanuel Yoboka, André H. Mbayiha, Hilda Maringa, A. Bere, J. Joseph, Lawrence, G. Lija, D. 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Male circumcision in the United States: The History, an analysis of the discourse, and a philosophical interpretation [PDF]

, 2011
Routine neonatal circumcision is at the present time a procedure on the decline in the United States. This is largely due to the lack of medical justification for the surgery, as medical organizations today do not recommend the procedure.
Cohen, Jonathan D
core   +1 more source

Circumcision and Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention: Evidence and Reticence [PDF]

, 2017
Circumcision is one of the oldest surgical procedures and the most common surgical procedure performed on males. It is practiced for three main reasons: ritual or religious meanings, prophylactic hygienic purposes, and therapeutic indications.
Alberto, Abrate, Alchiede, Simonato, Antonina, Argo, Marco, Vella   +3 more
core   +2 more sources