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Circumcision as conquest: Masculinity in Eswatini’s voluntary medical male circumcision campaign materials

Global Public Health, 2023
As a public health intervention related to sexual transmission and involving genital surgery, male circumcision for HIV prevention necessarily relates to understandings of sexuality and gender, a relationship which public health campaign materials have ...
Sarah Rudrum
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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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Male circumcision uptake, postoperative complications, and satisfaction associated with mid-level providers in rural Kenya. [PDF]

, 2012
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to assess postoperative complications and patient satisfaction associated with mid-level provision of male circumcision in rural Kenya. METHODS: A prospective cohort study was conducted among children, adolescents,
Obhai, George, Ngo, Thoai D
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Cutting through red tape: non-therapeutic circumcision and unethical guidelines [PDF]

, 2009
Current General Medical Council (GMC) guidelines state that any doctor who does not wish to carry out a non-therapeutic circumcision (NTC) on a boy must invoke conscientious objection.
Shaw, D., Shaw, David
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"After my husband's circumcision, I know that I am safe from diseases": Women's Attitudes and Risk Perceptions Towards Male Circumcision in Iringa, Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2013
While male circumcision reduces the risk of female-to-male HIV transmission and certain sexually transmitted infections (STIs), there is little evidence that circumcision provides women with direct protection against HIV.
Romani B Momburi, Mgeni Lilian, Kennedy, Caitlin E, Mgeni, Lilian, Romani B. Momburi, Beckham Sarah W., Layer, Erica H, Sarah W Beckham, Erica H. Layer, Momburi Romani B., Kennedy Caitlin E., Layer Erica H., Sarah W. Beckham, Beckham, Sarah W, Lilian Mgeni, Shembilu Catherine, Caitlin E, Shembilu, Catherine, Momburi, Romani B, Catherine Shembilu, Caitlin E Kennedy, Erica H Layer   +21 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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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]

, 2012
\ud 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.
Joel M Francis, Munseri, P., Sandstrom, E., Bakari, Muhammad, Edith AM Tarimo, Eric Sandstrom, Sandstrom Eric, Tarimo Edith AM, Patricia Munseri, Kakoko, Deodatus, Francis Joel M, Bakari Muhammad, Deodatus Kakoko, Francis, J.M., Munseri, Patricia, Tarimo, E.A., Kakoko, D., Muhammad Bakari, Francis, Joel M, Sandstrom, Eric, Munseri Patricia, Bakari, M., Tarimo, Edith A M, Kakoko Deodatus   +23 more
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Male circumcision in the general population of Kisumu, Kenya: beliefs about protection, risk behaviors, HIV, and STIs. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2010
Using a population-based survey we examined the behaviors, beliefs, and HIV/HSV-2 serostatus of men and women in the traditionally non-circumcising community of Kisumu, Kenya prior to establishment of voluntary medical male circumcision services. A total
Matthew Westercamp, Robert C Bailey, Elizabeth A Bukusi, Michele Montandon, Zachary Kwena, Craig R Cohen   +5 more
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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, Ishmael Kalule-Sabiti   +1 more
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Acceptability of Medical Male Circumcision in the Traditionally Circumcising Communities in Northern Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2011
Data from traditionally circumcising communities show that non-circumcised males and those circumcised in the medical settings are stigmatised. This is because traditional circumcision embodies local notions of bravery as anaesthetics are not used.
Wambura, Mwita, Mosha Jacklin F, Mshana, Gerry, Changalucha, John, Mosha, Frank, Mwita Wambura, Mwanga, Joseph R, Jacklin F Mosha, John Changalucha, Mshana Gerry, Frank Mosha, Mosha, Jacklin F, Joseph R Mwanga, Mwanga Joseph R, Changalucha John, Gerry Mshana, Wambura Mwita, Mosha Frank   +17 more
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