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Knowledge about male circumcision and perception of risk for HIV among youth in Harare, Zimbabwe

open access: yesSouthern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 2019
Background: Male circumcision will require high uptake among previously non-circumcising countries to realise the impact of circumcising in preventing HIV.
Kudzaishe Mangombe   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Substantial but spatially heterogeneous progress in male circumcision for HIV prevention in South Africa. [PDF]

open access: yesCommun Med (Lond)
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.
Thomas ML   +10 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

‘Why did I circumcise him?’ Unexpected comparisons to male circumcision in a qualitative study on female genital cutting among Kurdish–Norwegians

open access: yes, 2020
Based on fieldwork that aimed to gather more knowledge on female genital cutting among Kurdish–Norwegians, in this article we report on how research participants would often talk about male circumcision instead. Informed by current scholarship and public
I. Lunde   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Factors hindering effective uptake of medical male circumcision at Untunjambili area in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

open access: yesHealth SA Gesondheid: Journal of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, 2019
Background: Before 19th century, in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, male circumcision was regarded as a right to passage to manhood; however, during the ruling of King Shaka Zulu, circumcision was abolished.
Promise N. Sangweni   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Minkowski superspaces and superstrings as almost real-complex supermanifolds [PDF]

open access: yesTheor. and Math. Physics, Dec. 2012, 2010
In 1996/7, J. Bernstein observed that smooth or analytic supermanifolds that mathematicians study are real or (almost) complex ones, while Minkowski superspaces are completely different objects. They are what we call almost real-complex supermanifolds, i.e., real supermanifolds with a non-integrable distribution, the collection of subspaces of the ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Male Circumcision Pilot Program in Lilongwe, Malawi [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Male circumcision is one method of effective prevention against HIV/AIDS. In Malawi, however, male circumcision is not the predominant practice. Project Malawi conducted a pilot program of male circumcision for villagers with fully subsidized operation ...
Jung, Jaehyun
core   +2 more sources

Recommendation Versus Current Status: Retrospective Analysis of Age to Circumcise in a District Hospital

open access: yesİstanbul 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
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring Gender and Racial/Ethnic Bias Against Video Game Streamers: Comparing Perceived Gameplay Skill and Viewer Engagement [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the Foundations of Digital Games Conference (2024), 2023
Research suggests there is a perception that females and underrepresented racial/ethnic minorities have worse gameplay skills and produce less engaging video game streaming content. This bias might impact streamers' audience size, viewers' financial patronage of a streamer, streamers' sponsorship offers, etc.
arxiv   +1 more source

Complications of circumcision in male neonates, infants and children: a systematic review. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
BACKGROUND: Approximately one in three men are circumcised globally, but there are relatively few data on the safety of the procedure. The aim of this paper is to summarize the literature on frequency of adverse events following pediatric circumcision ...
Halperin, Daniel   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Puzzles in modern biology. I. Male sterility, failure reveals design [PDF]

open access: yesF1000Research 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.
arxiv   +1 more source

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