Male circumcision: get the timing right

N MacDonald - CMAJ, 2011 - Can Med Assoc
The most commonly performed surgical procedure in the world—male circumcision—is
done for therapeutic, prophylactic, religious, cultural and social reasons. Discussions of …

Male circumcision for prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases

P Flynn, P Havens, M Brady, P Emmanuel, J Read… - …, 2007 - publications.aap.org
ARECENT commentary in Pediatrics reviewed the documented medical benefits of newborn
male circumcision, including protection against balanoposthitis, phimosis, infections of the …

Male circumcision is not the HIV 'vaccine' we have been waiting for!

LW Green, RG McAllister, KW Peterson, JW Travis - 2008 - Future Medicine
Over the past several months, some researchers and health organizations [101] have
proclaimed circumcision to be a compelling and important new HIV tool. A recent …

Male circumcision roll-out certain–now for 'the how'

C Bateman - South African Medical Journal, 2010 - samj.org.za
MAlE cIrcuMcISIoN roll-out cErtAIN – NoW For ‘tHE HoW’ Page 1 IZINDABA 84 the deputy
chairperson of the South African National AIDS council (SANAc), Mark Heywood, believes …

[PDF][PDF] Acceptability of early infant male circumcision in two South African communities

A Spyrelis, S Frade, D Rech… - Johannesburg: Centre for …, 2013 - researchgate.net
5 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY INTRODUCTION: South Africa has the highest number of HIV-
infected people in the world, with an HIV prevalence of 17.3%, and 17% of the global burden …

Why wait? We need to scale-up infant male circumcision for global HIV control

DLJ Davey, SH Vermund, R Wamai, R Phili… - Aids, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Medical male circumcision (MMC) is one of the bestproven and most cost-effective means
for biomedical HIV prevention. MMC reduces the risk of heterosexually acquired HIV …

Can the ShangRing bring us closer to endorsing early infant male circumcision in sub-Saharan Africa?

SM Davis, RC Bailey - The Lancet Global Health, 2022 - thelancet.com
Can the ShangRing bring us closer to endorsing early infant male circumcision in sub-Saharan
Africa? - The Lancet Global Health Skip to Main Content Advertisement The Lancet Global …

Male circumcision and HIV prevention: ethical, medical and public health tradeoffs in low-income countries

S Rennie, AS Muula, D Westreich - Journal of medical ethics, 2007 - jme.bmj.com
Researchers 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. 1 …

Circumcision policy statement

American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force … - …, 2012 - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Male circumcision is a common procedure, generally performed during the newborn period
in the United States. In 2007, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) formed a …

Factors associated with uptake of infant male circumcision for HIV prevention in western Kenya

MR Young, E Odoyo-June, SK Nordstrom, TE Irwin… - …, 2012 - publications.aap.org
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Three randomized trials demonstrated male
circumcision decreases female-to-male HIV incidence by 60%. Male circumcision research …