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A rare case of necrotizing soft tissue infection following circumcision of buried penis

Urology Case Reports, 2023
Circumcision is generally a safe procedure with rare serious adverse events. We report the case of a 7-month-old male who developed necrotizing soft tissue infection following circumcision of his buried penis. A high index of suspicion must be present to
Jason Weiss, Hoang-Kim Le
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Religious circumcision (Khatna) and circumcision mishaps in Kashmiri children

African Journal of Paediatric Surgery, 2022
Background: Male circumcision is recommended practice in Muslim tradition and one of the oldest operations performed all over the world. Male circumcision is universal in our Muslim-dominated valley of Kashmir for religious reasons.
Yaqoob Hassan, Humayoon Rasool, Ajaz Ahmad Rather, Younis Ahmad, Insha Rasool   +4 more
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A comparison of sexual risk behaviours and HIV seroprevalence among circumcised and uncircumcised men before and after implementation of the safe male circumcision programme in Uganda. [PDF]

BMC Public Health, 2016
Background: Although male circumcision reduces the heterosexual HIV transmission risk, its effect may be attenuated if circumcised men increase sexual risk behaviours (SRB) due to perceived low risk.
Kibira SP, Sandøy IF, Daniel M, Atuyambe LM, Makumbi FE.   +4 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 ...
Larke Natasha, Halperin, Daniel, Weiss Helen A, Schenker Inon, Schenker, Inon, Daniel Halperin, Weiss, Helen A, Helen A Weiss, Halperin Daniel, Inon Schenker, Larke, Natasha, Natasha Larke   +11 more
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Factors associated with acceptability of child circumcision in Botswana -- a cross sectional survey

BMC Public Health, 2016
Background Safe male child circumcision has been recently adopted as a potential strategy to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission in later life in Botswana. Methods Data used was derived from a cross-sectional survey, the Botswana AIDS Impact Survey (BAIS) IV ...
Mpho Keetile, Motsholathebe Bowelo
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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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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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Will circumcision provide even more protection from HIV to women and men? New estimates of the population impact of circumcision interventions. [PDF]

, 2010
BACKGROUND: Mathematical modelling has indicated that expansion of male circumcision services in high HIV prevalence settings can substantially reduce population-level HIV transmission.
J. M. Baeten, C. Celum, R. Gray, Alsallaq, Ramzi A, H. Weiss, Baeten, Jared, R. A. Alsallaq, Gray, Ron, Celum, Connie, Celum, Connie L., T. B. Hallett, Alsallaq, Ramzi A., Weiss, Helen, Baeten, Jared M, L. Abu-Raddad, Abu-Raddad, Laith, Hallett, Timothy B   +16 more
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Key challenges to voluntary medical male circumcision uptake in traditionally circumcising settings of Machinga district in Malawi

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, Gertrude Mwalabu, Pammla Petrucka, Patrick Mapulanga   +3 more
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Soccer-based promotion of voluntary medical male circumcision: A mixed-methods feasibility study with secondary students in Uganda.

PLoS ONE, 2017
The Ugandan government is committed to scaling-up proven HIV prevention strategies including safe male circumcision, and innovative strategies are needed to increase circumcision uptake.
George Miiro, Jeff DeCelles, Rwamahe Rutakumwa, Jessica Nakiyingi-Miiro, Philip Muzira, Wilber Ssembajjwe, Saidat Musoke, Lorna J Gibson, Rebecca B Hershow, Suzanna Francis, Belen Torondel, David A Ross, Helen A Weiss, MENISCUS project   +13 more
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