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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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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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A case study for a psychographic-behavioral segmentation approach for targeted demand generation in voluntary medical male circumcision

eLife, 2017
Public health programs are starting to recognize the need to move beyond a one-size-fits-all approach in demand generation, and instead tailor interventions to the heterogeneity underlying human decision making.
Sema K Sgaier, Maria Eletskaya, Elisabeth Engl, Owen Mugurungi, Bushimbwa Tambatamba, Gertrude Ncube, Sinokuthemba Xaba, Alice Nanga, Svetlana Gogolina, Patrick Odawo, Sehlulekile Gumede-Moyo, Steve Kretschmer   +11 more
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Is traditional male circumcision effective as an HIV prevention strategy? Evidence from Lesotho.

PLoS ONE, 2017
In many developing countries, male circumcision has been promoted as an effective HIV prevention strategy, and medical randomized controlled trials have indeed shown a causal link.
Elisa M Maffioli
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Women's roles in voluntary medical male circumcision in Nyanza Province, Kenya. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Women are an important audience for voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) communication messages so that they know that VMMC provides only partial protection against HIV.
Michele Lanham, Kelly L L'engle, Mores Loolpapit, Isaac Onyango Oguma   +3 more
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Correction: The Cost of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in South Africa. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0160207.].
Michel Tchuenche, Eurica Palmer, Vibhuti Haté, Ananthy Thambinayagam, Dayanund Loykissoonlal, Emmanuel Njeuhmeli, Steven Forsythe   +6 more
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Behavior change pathways to voluntary medical male circumcision: narrative interviews with circumcision clients in Zambia. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
As an HIV prevention strategy, the scale-up of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) is underway in 14 countries in Africa. For prevention impact, these countries must perform millions of circumcisions in adolescent and adult men before 2015 ...
Jessica E Price, Lyson Phiri, Drosin Mulenga, Paul C Hewett, Stephanie M Topp, Nicholas Shiliya, Karin Hatzold   +6 more
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Simplifying the ShangRing technique for circumcision in boys and men: use of the no-flip technique with randomization to removal at 7 days versus spontaneous detachment

Asian Journal of Andrology, 2019
To assess safety of the no-flip ShangRing male circumcision technique and to determine clinical course and safety of spontaneous detachment (i.e., allowing the device to fall off), we conducted a case series of no-flip ShangRing circumcision combined ...
Mark A Barone, Philip S Li, Richard K Lee, Daniel Ouma, Millicent Oundo, Mukhaye Barasa, Jairus Oketch, Patrick Otiende, Nixon Nyangweso, Mary Maina, Nicholas Kiswi, Betty Chirchir, Marc Goldstein, Quentin D Awori   +13 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

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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Achieving the HIV prevention impact of voluntary medical male circumcision: lessons and challenges for managing programs. [PDF]

PLoS Medicine, 2014
Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) is capable of reducing the risk of sexual transmission of HIV from females to males by approximately 60%. In 2007, the WHO and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) recommended making VMMC part
Sema K Sgaier, Jason B Reed, Anne Thomas, Emmanuel Njeuhmeli   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source