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Voluntary medical male circumcision and HIV in Zambia: expectations and observations

Journal of Biosocial Science, 2019
AbstractThe study analysed the HIV/AIDS situation in Zambia six years after the onset of mass campaigns of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC). The analysis was based on data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) conducted in 2001, 2007 and 2013.
Michel Garenne, Alan Matthews
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Let's talk about circumcision [PDF]

, 2018
A proposal to ban circumcision for non-medical reasons in Iceland has generated a heated debate over whether banning the practice would amount to an attack on religious freedom.
Moller, Kai
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Perceived medical benefit, peer/partner influence and safety and cost to access the service: client motivators for voluntary seeking of medical male circumcision in Iganga District Eastern Uganda, a qualitative study

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2013
INTRODUCTION: Although safe male circumcision (SMC) in Iganga district was launched in 2009 with a target of having 129,896 eligible males circumcised by 2012, only 35,000 (27%) of the anticipated target had been circumcised by mid 2012.
Lubega Muhamadi, Musenze Ibrahim, Fred Wabwire-Mangen, Stefan Peterson, Steven J Reynolds   +4 more
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Simplifying the ShangRing technique for circumcision in boys and men: use of the no-flip technique with randomization to removal at 7 days versus spontaneous detachment

Asian Journal of Andrology, 2019
To assess safety of the no-flip ShangRing male circumcision technique and to determine clinical course and safety of spontaneous detachment (i.e., allowing the device to fall off), we conducted a case series of no-flip ShangRing circumcision combined ...
Mark A Barone, Philip S Li, Richard K Lee, Daniel Ouma, Millicent Oundo, Mukhaye Barasa, Jairus Oketch, Patrick Otiende, Nixon Nyangweso, Mary Maina, Nicholas Kiswi, Betty Chirchir, Marc Goldstein, Quentin D Awori   +13 more
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Rural Zulu women’s knowledge of and attitudes towards medical male circumcision

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2015
Background: Medical male circumcision (MMC) is a key strategy in the South African HIV infection prevention package. Women may have a potentially powerful role in supporting such a strategy. Circumcision is not a traditional part of Zulu society, and Zulu women may have limited knowledge and ambivalent or negative attitudes towards MMC.Aim: This study ...
Ikwegbue, Joseph N., Ross, Andrew, Ogbonnaya, Harbor   +2 more
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Men undergoing medical circumcision at a community health centre: Knowledge and attitudes

South African Family Practice
Background: Human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) and/or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome remains a significant global health issue, affecting millions of individuals worldwide.
Charles K. Baloyi, John V. Ndimande, Cila D. Kabongo, Jean Louis M. Yoko, Beya Mpinda   +4 more
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Male circumcision for HIV prevention - a cross-sectional study on awareness among young people and adults in rural Uganda

BMC Public Health, 2010
Background Medical male circumcision is now part of a comprehensive approach to HIV prevention. It has been shown that awareness of the protective effect of male circumcision leads to high acceptability towards the introduction of medical male ...
Hizaamu Ramadhan NB, Miiro-Nakayima Flavia, Wilcken Andrea, Keil Thomas, Balaba-Byansi Dorothy   +4 more
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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.
Baltazar, Goldstein, JAMES J. BROWN, Nickerson, OLGA MASLOVSKAYA, Rasbash, SABU S. PADMADAS, Skaine   +7 more
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An accidental finding of a penile abscess in a febrile sickle cell anaemia child following circumcision

Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil University, 2014
Circumcision is an age-long tradition in Africa. Both sexes are often circumcised; however, female circumcision has significantly reduced in some African societies while the practice of male circumcision still continues.
Aliyu Ibrahim
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No. 24: Spaces of Vulnerability: Migration and HIV/AIDS in South Africa [PDF]

, 2002
Seventy per cent of the 36 million people infected worldwide with HIV live in Sub-Saharan Africa and within this region the countries of Southern Africa are the worst affected.
Crush, Jonathan, Gouws, Eleanor, Lurie, Mark, Williams, Brian   +3 more
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