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Health 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
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Christians’ Cut: Popular Religion and the Global Health Campaign for Medical Male Circumcision in Swaziland [PDF]
, 2017 Swaziland faces one of the worst HIV epidemics in the world and is a site for the current global health campaign in sub-Saharan Africa to medically circumcise the majority of the male population.
Golomski, Casey, Nyawo, Sonene
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Perceptions of voluntary medical male circumcision among circumcising and non-circumcising communities in Malawi [PDF]
Global Public Health, 2015 Three randomised controlled trials in Africa indicated that voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) is an effective method to reduce a man’s risk of becoming infected through sex with an HIV-positive female partner. The success of recent public health initiatives to increase numbers of circumcised men in Malawi has been very limited. We conducted in-
Stuart, Rennie +4 more
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Complications of high volume circumcision: glans amputation in adolescents; a case report
BMC Urology, 2019 Background The past four years has seen a rapid roll-out of male medical circumcision services in South Africa in response to clinical trials showing circumcision prevents HIV acquisition in heterosexual men.
Mmatsie Manentsa +6 more
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Complications of circumcision in male neonates, infants and children: a systematic review. [PDF]
, 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
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Limits of Enlightenment and the Law - On the Legality of Ritual Male Circumcision in Europe today
Utrecht Journal of International and European Law, 2013 The legality of ritual circumcision of male infants is a subject not regularly discussed under European or international Human Rights Law, let alone national law.
Mark Swatek-Evenstein
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South African Family Practice, 2011 Background: Medically safe, elective male circumcision supports traditional and cultural rites of passage by reducing the risk of adverse events and death among men undergoing initiation.
F. Peters, T.S. Marcus
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Knowledge about male circumcision and perception of risk for HIV among youth in Harare, Zimbabwe
Southern 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
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BMC Public Health, 2021 Background Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) is becoming more popular as an important HIV prevention strategy. Malawi, with a high HIV and AIDS prevalence rate of 8.8% and a low male circumcision prevalence rate of 28% in 2016, is one of the ...
Rodney Masese +3 more
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The Pan African Medical Journal, 2015 INTRODUCTION: medical male circumcision is currently recognized as an additional important HIV preventive intervention to reduce the risk of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men.
Trasias Mukama +3 more
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