The study aimed to compare Conventional dissection circumcision and Plastibell device in terms of mean duration surgery. Study design: Quasi-Experimental Study. Place study: Eleven months from January 10, 2021, December the Department General Surgery, Nescom Hospital. Methodos: Subjects were randomly divided equally into two groups. Group A included 40 patients who underwent conventional circum...

BACKGROUND Studies on voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) have provided convincing evidence on its efficacy to provide partial protection against female-to-male HIV transmission in circumcised men. The World Health Organization and UNAIDS subsequently formulated recommendations for VMMC implementation that included implementation of neonatal medical male circumcision (NMMC) to all infant...

The article discusses the strong and enduring connection between male circumcision Jewishness of men. However, paradoxically, Jewish women are Jews in spite absence or any other bodily marker. also parity female circumcision, its implications.

BACKGROUND The effect of circumcision on feeding behavior in the newborn period is unknown. We hypothesized that circumcision would not have a significant effect on newborn feeding. METHODS This prospective study analyzed the effect of circumcision on neonatal feeding behavior. Inclusion criteria were healthy male infants WHO were exclusively bottle-fed and underwent a circumcision before dis...

BACKGROUND The objectives of the current national study were to determine the rates of self-reported circumcision among South African men and, more importantly, evaluate the acceptability of male circumcision in South Africa by uncircumcised adult men and all adult women. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study based on a population-based survey included a nationally representative subgroup of 6654 m...

DESCRIPTION A 7-year-old child was brought to the hyperbaric oxygen centre because of cyanosis of his glans penis. He had been circumcised the same day with the use of a monopolar electrocautery device. Unfortunately, the electrocautery caused a severe burn injury on the glans of the child. On examination, he had necrosis over the glans and shaft of the penis (figure 1). Circumcision is a relig...

In the 25 years since the first reported cases of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), more than 70 million people have been infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). HIV is a retrovirus that is spread from mother to child, through blood contamination and through sex. Antiretroviral drugs administered to HIV infected pregnant women and the newborn child, together with exclusiv...

I n this issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics you can read a minisymposium on circumcision, mainly dealing with the circumcision of male children at an age where they cannot consent, but also touching upon issues of female genital mutilation. When reading the papers I found it strange, but of course not really surprising given its symbolic importance, that we are so worried about intervention...

Male circumcision is one method of effective prevention against HIV/AIDS. In Malawi, however, male circumcision is not the predominant practice. Project Malawi conducted a pilot program of male circumcision for villagers with fully subsidized operation costs. After we conducted sensitization programs to create demand for circumcision, the rate of male circumcision has increased. This pilot proj...