A critical evaluation of arguments opposing male circumcision for HIV prevention in developed countries

BJ Morris, RC Bailey, JD Klausner, A Leibowitz… - AIDS care, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
A potential impediment to evidence-based policy development on medical male
circumcision (MC) for HIV prevention in all countries worldwide is the uncritical acceptance …

Economic evaluations of adult male circumcision for prevention of heterosexual acquisition of HIV in men in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

OA Uthman, TA Popoola, MMB Uthman, O Aremu - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background There is conclusive evidence from observational data and three randomized
controlled trials that circumcised men have a significantly lower risk of becoming infected …

Out of step: fatal flaws in the latest AAP policy report on neonatal circumcision

JS Svoboda, RS Van Howe - Journal of medical ethics, 2013 - jme.bmj.com
The American Academy of Pediatrics recently released a policy statement and technical
report on circumcision, in both of which the organisation suggests that the health benefits …

[HTML][HTML] Canadian Urological Association guideline on the care of the normal foreskin and neonatal circumcision in Canadian infants (full version)

S Dave, K Afshar, LH Braga… - Canadian Urological …, 2017 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Canadian Urological Association guideline on the care of the normal foreskin and neonatal
circumcision in Canadian infants (full version) - PMC Skip to main content Here's how you …

Male circumcision and HIV prevention: Insufficient evidence and neglected external validity

LW Green, JW Travis, RG McAllister… - American journal of …, 2010 - ajpmonline.org
Background Recent editorials have asked the global health community to scale up male
circumcision for HIV prevention in regions with HIV epidemics following the publication of …

Male circumcision for protection against HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa: the evidence in favour justifies the implementation now in progress

RG Wamai, BJ Morris, RC Bailey, JD Klausner… - Global Public …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This article responds to a recent 'controversy study'in Global Public Health by de Camargo et
al. directed at three randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of male circumcision (MC) for HIV …

Perceptions and knowledge of voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention in traditionally non-circumcising communities in South Africa

JR Hoffman, KD Arendse, C Larbi, N Johnson… - Global public …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) has been recommended for the prevention of
HIV transmission, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Uptake of the campaign has been …

Male circumcision and HIV: A controversy study on facts and values

KR de Camargo Jr, AL de Oliveira Mendonca… - Global Public …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
We present a controversy study on the association between male circumcision (MC) and
HIV. Our general goal is to shed light on the issue, unravelling and comparing different …

Social representations of male circumcision as prophylaxis against HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe

A Chikutsa, P Maharaj - BMC Public Health, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Background The World Health Organisation recommended the scale-up of
voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) as an additional HIV prevention method in …

[HTML][HTML] Libertarianism and circumcision

P Testa, WE Block - International Journal of Health Policy and …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Despite the millenniums-old tradition in Abrahamic circles of removing the foreskin of a
penis at birth, the involuntary and aggressive practice of circumcision must not be made an …