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BMC Pediatrics, 2017 Background The influence of socio-economic determinants on choice of infant male circumcision provider is not known in areas with high population coverage such as rural Africa. The overall aim of this study was to determine the key socio-economic factors
Thomas Gyan +5 more
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New Approaches to HIV Prevention: Accelerating Research and Ensuring Future Access [PDF]
, 2006 Summarizes the state of research on new HIV prevention approaches and recommends ways to accelerate research and ensure rapid access to new prevention ...
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Naturalizing Moral Justification: Rethinking the Method of Moral Epistemology [PDF]
, 2013 The companion piece to this article, “Situating Moral Justification,” challenges the idea that moral epistemology\u27s mission is to establish a single, all‐purpose reasoning strategy for moral justification because no reasoning practice can be expected ...
Jaggar, Alison, Tobin, Theresa Weynand
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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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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 +5 more
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Female Genital Mutilation: Exploring Strategies for Ending Ritualized Torture; Shaming, Blaming, and Utilizing the Convention against Torture [PDF]
, 2008 The intent of this article is to graphically describe female genital mutilation (FGM); discuss the background of FGM and its health, psychological, and social implications; propose some workable solutions to ending FGM; and raise the level of awareness ...
Broussard, Patricia A.
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Tolerance of Muslim beliefs and practices: Age related differences and context effects [PDF]
, 2007 Tolerant judgments of Muslims’ political rights and dissenting beliefs and practices by ethnic Dutch adolescents (12–18 years) were examined. Participants (N = 632) made judgments of different types of behaviors and different contexts in an experimental ...
Slooter, Luuk,, Verkuyten, Maykel,
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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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Using Rights to Counter “Gender-Specific” Wrongs [PDF]
, 2009 One popular strategy of opposition to practices of female genital cutting (FCG) is rooted in the global feminist movement. Arguing that women’s rights are human rights, global feminists contend that practices of FGC are a culturally specific ...
Tobin, Theresa
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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 +2 more
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