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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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Service delivery interventions to increase uptake of voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention: A systematic review. [PDF]

, 2020
BackgroundVoluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) remains an essential component of combination HIV prevention services, particularly in priority countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Atkins, Kaitlyn, Baggaley, Rachel, Fonner, Virginia A, Kennedy, Caitlin E, O'Reilly, Kevin R, Rutherford, George W, Samuelson, Julia, Sweat, Michael D, Yeh, Ping Teresa   +8 more
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Factors hindering effective uptake of medical male circumcision at Untunjambili area in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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, Thandisizwe R. Mavundla, Pule S. Moabi   +2 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, Hilary Mukudu, Nthabiseng Koloane, Ashley Ringane, Eleanor Matta, Neil A. Martinson, Limakatso Lebina   +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, Larke, Natasha, Schenker, Inon, Weiss, Helen A   +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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Uptake of medical male circumcision with household-based testing, and the association of traditional male circumcision and HIV infection

AIDS, 2023
Objectives: Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) is an important component of combination HIV prevention. Inclusion of traditionally circumcised HIV negative men in VMMC uptake campaigns may be important if traditional male circumcision is less protective against HIV acquisition than VMMC.
Zewdie, K, Pickles, M, Floyd, S, Fidler, S, Ayles, H, Bock, P, Hoddinott, G, Mandla, N, Shanaube, K, Simwinga, M, Fraser, C, Seeley, J, Piwowar-Manning, E, Hayes, R, Donnell, D   +14 more
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Circumcision weeks: Making circumcision part of routine training and service delivery at district-level hospitals in South Africa

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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Economic compensation interventions to increase uptake of voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention: A systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]

, 2020
BackgroundEconomic compensation interventions may help support higher voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) coverage in priority sub-Saharan African countries.
Atkins, Kaitlyn, Baggaley, Rachel, Fonner, Virginia A, Kennedy, Caitlin E, O'Reilly, Kevin R, Rutherford, George W, Samuelson, Julia, Sweat, Michael D, Yeh, Ping Teresa   +8 more
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The Cost of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in South Africa

PLOS ONE, 2016
Given compelling evidence associating voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) with men's reduced HIV acquisition through heterosexual intercourse, South Africa in 2010 began scaling up VMMC. To project the resources needed to complete 4.3 million circumcisions between 2010 and 2016, we (1) estimated the unit cost to provide VMMC; (2) assessed cost ...
Michel Tchuenche, Eurica Palmer, Vibhuti Haté, Ananthy Thambinayagam, Dayanund Loykissoonlal, Emmanuel Njeuhmeli, Steven Forsythe   +6 more
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