Adult Male Circumcision Tool for Use in Traditional Ceremonies [PDF]
Journal of Medical Devices, Transactions of the ASME, 2010 Public health officials are currently supporting adult male circumcision as a public health policy to minimize the transmission of HIV during intercourse. Estimates indicate that more than 3 million lives could be saved in sub-Saharan Africa alone if the procedure becomes widely used.
Kathleen H Sienko
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Safe male circumcision in Botswana: Tension between traditional practices and biomedical marketing [PDF]
Global Public Health, 2015 Botswana has been running Safe Male Circumcision (SMC) since 2009 and has not yet met its target. Donors like the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Africa Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnership (funded by the Gates Foundation) in collaboration with Botswana's Ministry of Health have invested much to encourage HIV-negative men to circumcise.
Marguerite Lorraine Daniel +1 more
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Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2010 OBJECTIVE: To systematically review studies on the prevalence and complications of traditional male circumcision (i.e. circumcision by a traditional provider with no formal medical training), whose coverage and safety are unclear.
Andrea Wilcken, Thomas Keil, Bruce Dick
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Acceptability of medical male circumcision in the traditionally circumcising communities in Northern Tanzania [PDF]
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 +5 more
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The perceptions on male circumcision as a preventive measure against HIV infection and considerations in scaling up of the services: a qualitative study among police officers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2012 Background In recent randomized controlled trials, male circumcision has been proven to complement the available biomedical interventions in decreasing HIV transmission from infected women to uninfected men. Consequently, Tanzania is striving to scale-up
Tarimo Edith AM +5 more
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Complications of circumcision in male neonates, infants and children: a systematic review [PDF]
BMC Urology, 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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Voluntary medical male circumcision versus religio-cultural circumcision and initiation rites: The case of Varemba of Mwenezi district in response to the prevention of human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in Zimbabwe [PDF]
Theologia Viatorum, 2019 Male circumcision has long been associated with religious or cultural rituals which bestow culturally valuable status. In some communities, circumcision is believed to provide concomitant access to economic and spiritual resources such as land and the ...
Onias Matumbu, Vengesai Chimininge
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Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 2010 In developing countries, it would be advisable to give priority to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention strategies, because of the high mortality caused by the rapid spread of the pandemic.
Catia Dini
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Development of machine learning prediction models for postoperative outcomes in adult male circumcision [PDF]
BMC UrologyBackground Male circumcision is among the most commonly performed and clinically endorsed surgical procedures globally, deeply rooted in medical, cultural, and religious traditions.
Leonid Shpaner, Giuseppe Saitta
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Behaviours of traditional male circumcision initiates of Cala and Mdantsane, South Africa
Inkanyiso, 2022 This article focuses on the exploration of behavioural deficits that are manifested by the traditional male circumcision (TMC) initiates of the contemporary epoch.
Aphiwe Mpateni, Simon Murote Kang’ethe
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