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Male Circumcision; Willingness to undergo Safe Male Circumcision and HIV Risk Behaviors among Men in Botswana

African Population Studies, 2014
This paper uses data from the 2008 Botswana AIDS Impact Survey to explore the association between male circumcision or willingness to undergo safe male circumcision, and men’s sexual and HIV risk behaviours in Botswana. Bivariate and multivariate regression analysis techniques are used. The results show that being circumcised, or expressing willingness
Mpho Keetile, Serai Daniel Rakgoasi
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Strategies for Scaling up HIV prevention among Adolescents: TASO Masaka Safe Male Circumcision Experience [PDF]

Journal of AIDS & Clinical Research, 2016
Issue: Uganda has HIV prevelance of 7.3%; however HIV prevalence in Masaka is at 10%. TASO Masaka has 383 active adolescents in care. Men’s uptake of Safe Male Circumcision is at 34% in the central area of Uganda including Masaka. Safe male circumcision (SMC) is one intervention for HIV prevention that targets male adolescents directly.
Ivan Magala, Robert Mwesigwa, William S Senkirikimbe, Rose Nalubega, Musa Nsubuga, Cissy Nalwanga, Enock Tumusiime   +6 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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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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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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Acceptability of medical male circumcision in the traditionally circumcising communities in Northern Tanzania

BMC Public Health, 2011
Background Data from traditionally circumcising communities show that non-circumcised males and those circumcised in the medical settings are stigmatised.
Mshana Gerry, Mosha Jacklin F, Mwanga Joseph R, Wambura Mwita, Mosha Frank, Changalucha John   +5 more
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Traditional male circumcision and the risk for HIV transmission among men: a systematic review

BMJ Open, 2023
Objectives To synthesise evidence to determine whether, in contrast to medical male circumcision, traditional male circumcision (TMC) practices may contribute to HIV transmission and what the impacts of TMC are on the initiates, their families and ...
Gregorius Abanit Asa, Nelsensius Klau Fauk, Paul Russell Ward   +2 more
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Circumventing the Urologist: A Case of Poorly Executed Self-Circumcision

Journal of Urological Surgery, 2016
Circumcision is a relatively brief and safe procedure when performed by a medical professional. Recently, clamp-assisted circumcisions in the adult male have gained increased interest due to potential public health benefits.
Timothy Rogers, Omar Mostafa, Hesham Mostafa, Tim Suttle   +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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MENISCUS SMC dataset [PDF]

, 2017
The study took place in four secondary schools in Entebbe sub-district, Uganda. Acceptability, perceptions and knowledge of safe male circumcision were assessed through a cross-sectional quantitative survey of 210 participants recruited from Forms 2 and ...
Gibson, Lorna, Nakinyingi-Miiro, Jessica, Sembajjwe, Wilber, Weiss, Helen   +3 more
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