Male Circumcision: Unending Debate

Male Circumcision

In Zambia, circumcision is traditionally practiced on a large scale only in North-Western Province, an area with one of the lowest HIV rates in Zambia. Few ethnic groups in Zambia conduct male circumcision as a part of religious and cultural practices. The Luvale and Lunda of Northwestern Province practice traditional universal male circumcision, though there are small groups who also practice ...

Techniques of Male Circumcision

Male circumcision is a controversial subject in surgical practice. There are, however, clear surgical indications of this procedure. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends newborn male circumcision for its preventive and public health benefits that has been shown to outweigh the risks of newborn male circumcision. Many surgical techniques have been reported. The present review disc...

The Circumcision Debate: Beyond Benefits and Risks.

In 2007, following a flurry of reports describing a benefit of circumcision in the fight against HIV, the American Academy of Pediatrics reconvened the task force on circumcision to update its policy statement of 1999.1 Rather than simply incorporating this new information, the committee chose to start from scratch and rereview the medical literature. The task force’s work culminated in a polic...

Voluntary male medical circumcision.

Male circumcision and HIV

Background There is an urgent need to intensify and expand HIV prevention strategies, with an estimated 33.4 million people living with HIV in 2008 and an estimated 2.7 million newly infected. New infections continue to outstrip advances made in numbers treated – for every 2 people put on antiretroviral therapy, another 5 become infected. Current strategies to reduce sexual transmission of HIV ...