Time to stop preventable deaths from unsterile traditional male circumcision practices
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Time to stop preventable deaths from unsterile traditional male circumcision practices.
521 August 2014, Vol. 104, No. 8 Time to stop preventable deaths from unsterile traditional male circumcision practices To the Editor: Once again the nation is outraged by the now familiar annual tale of how a number of initiates undergoing traditional male circum cision in several provinces have paid with permanent disability, or the ultimate penalty of death, for taking part in cultural pract...
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عنوان ژورنال: South African Medical Journal
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2078-5135
DOI: 10.7196/samj.8687