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 SciencesTraditional 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
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Islamic headscarves and female circumcision: Unveiling the threat posed by Islam to human rights [PDF]
, 2005 This paper is, in part, a response to the NZPGLeJ Editor-in-Chief Herman Salton’s article,“‘Veiled Threats?’ Islam, Headscarves and Freedom of Religion in France and the United States”, which was published in the first issue of this journal.
Williamson, Myra Elsie Jane Bell
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Disentangling the complex association between female genital cutting and HIV among Kenyan women [PDF]
, 2009 Female genital cutting (FGC) is a widespread cultural practice in Africa and the Middle East, with a number of potential adverse health consequences for women.
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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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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 +2 more
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Rebuilding the Feminine in Levinas's Talmudic Readings [PDF]
, 2003 This study presents a reconsideration of Levinas’s concept of the feminine. This reconsideration facilitated by a philosophically informed analysis of Levinas’s Talmudic readings on that subject.
Ben-Pazi, Hanoch
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African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2019 Background: Medical male circumcision (MMC) and traditional male circumcision (TMC) are reportedly having negative and positive outcomes in the Eastern Cape province.
Sandile Prusente +2 more
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Bringing HIV Prevention to Scale: An Urgent Global Priority [PDF]
, 2007 Illustrates the need for a scaled-up HIV prevention response in order to stem the epidemic, describes impediments to HIV prevention efforts and examples of successful initiatives, and includes recommendations for governments, health agencies, and ...
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Contextualization: Tanzanian Maasai Culture and the Implications for Worship and Women’s Ministry [PDF]
, 2015 Maasai religion, music, and cultural customs have a definite impact on the methodology of missions and relations with the people of their tribes, specifically in the areas of worship and women’s ministry.
Morgan, Alexandra T
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Debating medicalization of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) : learning from (policy) experiences across countries [PDF]
, 2019 Background: Although Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) is internationally considered a harmful practice, it is increasingly being medicalized allegedly to reduce its negative health effects, and is thus suggested as a harm reduction strategy in ...
Barrett, Hazel +4 more
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