BACKGROUND Recent evidence has confirmed that circumcision can be performed as a preventive strategy for HIV and early infant male circumcision (EIMC) is regarded to be safer than circumcision in adulthood; however, limited data are available in the literature about EIMC in China. Therefore, the present study was designed to determine the willingness and attitudes of Chinese parents on newborn ...

Defenders of male circumcision increasingly argue that female ‘circumcision’ (cutting the clitoral hood or labia) should be legally allowed in Western liberal democracies even when non-consensual. In his target article, Richard Shweder (2022) gives perhaps most persuasive articulation this argument to have so far appeared literature. my own work, I no person subjected medically unnecessary geni...

Generally, men circumcised in childhood remain uninIntroduction formed of its eCects. Lilienfeld et al. [9] found that onethird of circumcised men were unaware they were An estimated 650 million males [1] and 100 million females [2] living today were genitally altered as children. circumcised. Schlossberger et al. [10] revealed that 34% of circumcised adolescents reported their status incorAnnu...

The Convention of the Rights of the Child from 1989 states in Article 19 that States "shall take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violation, injury or abuse..." Article 24.3 urges all States "to take all effective and appropriate measures with a view to abolishing traditional practices prejudic...

BACKGROUND The government of the Kingdom of Swaziland recognizes that it must urgently scale up HIV prevention interventions, such as voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC). Swaziland has adopted a 2-phase approach to male circumcision scale-up. The catch-up phase prioritizes VMMC services for adolescents and adults, while the sustainability phase involves the establishment of early infant ...

Background. The risks associated with newborn circumcision have not been as extensively evaluated as the benefits. Objectives. The goals of this study were threefold: 1) to derive a population-based complication rate for newborn circumcision; 2) to calculate the number needed to harm for newborn circumcision based on this rate; and 3) to establish trade-offs based on our complication rates and ...

OBJECTIVE Circumcision is a commonly performed surgical procedure but choice of anesthesia remained an issue of research and debate. This study was conducted to find out the effectiveness of the eutectic mixture of local anesthetic (EMLA) cream with dorsal penile nerve block (DPNB) using lignocaine, for reduction of pain during circumcision. METHODOLOGY This was comparative study carried out ...

R esearchers have been exploring the possibility of a correlation between male circumcision and lowered risk of HIV infection almost since the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Results from a randomised controlled trial in South Africa in 2005 indicate that male circumcision protects men against the acquisition of HIV through heterosexual intercourse, confirming the findings from 20 years of ...

January 2009, Vol. 99, No. 1 SAMJ 2. Brewer DD, Potterat JJ, Roberts JM, jr., Brody S. Male and female circumcision associated with prevalent HIV infection in adolescents in Kenya, Lesotho, and Tanzania. Ann Epidemiol 2007; 17: 217-226. 3. UNICEF, African Child Policy Forum. What children and youth think, Botswana: a statistical presentation of opinions and perceptions of children and youth in ...