• This report presents the results of VMMC scale-up in nine countries where national ministries of health and CDC are implementing VMMC services for HIV prevention: Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. (cdc.gov)
  • These data include only VMMCs for HIV prevention, performed under local anesthesia in medical settings by trained clinicians in southern and eastern Africa. (cdc.gov)
  • But in sub-Saharan Africa, home to more than half of the world's almost 40 million HIV-infected people, there are large swaths of populations where male circumcision is rare. (advocate.com)
  • Holmes has written an op-ed , published March 2017, on why the U.S. should continue to prioritize HIV prevention and treatment efforts in Africa. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
  • Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) is one of the most effective HIV prevention interventions in Africa. (grassrootsoccer.org)
  • The clinical trials included in the review took place in South Africa, Uganda, and Kenya between 2002 and 2006, and included a total of 11,054 men. (healthnewstrack.com)
  • Readers should find it peculiar that 7 years after the famous African "trials" that prompted the WHO to endorse circumcision as HIV prevention in Africa, a demonstrable causal link between the foreskin and facilitated HIV transmission has yet to be established. (joseph4gi.com)
  • They were instrumental in getting the WHO to endorse male circumcision as HIV prevention in high-risk areas in Africa. (joseph4gi.com)
  • It seems organizations intent on seeing the whole of Africa circumcised are growing ever desperate that their "mass circumcision campaigns" aren't working out as they had wished. (joseph4gi.com)
  • that circumcision promoters aren't the least bit interested in preventing disease, but in reinforcing pre-existing partiality to circumcision, and using it to their advantage in proliferating the practice of circumcision and ensure its continuance, both in Africa and elsewhere. (joseph4gi.com)
  • Does Partner Selection Mediate the Relationship Between School Attendance and HIV/Herpes Simplex Virus-2 Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in South Africa: An Analysis of HIV Prevention Trials Network 068 Data. (umassmed.edu)
  • In Africa, it has been found that male circumcision (MC) can reduce the risk of HIV infection by 50% to 60% among heterosexual men [10]. (inosr.net)
  • But the study only referred to Africa (Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa) and only to adults. (intactiwiki.org)
  • The World Health Organization (2011) endorses male circumcision as an HIV prevention method based on the three RCTs in Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda. (intactiwiki.org)
  • A January 2008 article in a new journal Future HIV Therapy makes the most persuasive case for male circumcision being rolled out on a much, much wider scale in sub-Saharan Africa. (harvard.edu)
  • Modeling suggests that widespread circumcision in the rest of sub-Saharan Africa could avert up to 2 million new HIV cases and 300,000 deaths over the next 10 years, and 3.7 million infections and 2.7 million deaths in the following 10 years, many of those among women [27]. (harvard.edu)
  • Male circumcision was historically practiced in nearly all of Africa, but 19th century European missionaries condemned the widespread traditional initiation ceremonies, which included circumcision, as pagan practices. (harvard.edu)
  • The United States provided more than $840 million (Shs2.9 trillion) in assistance to NGOs, local communities, government agencies, and other partners, making Uganda one of the largest recipients of US aid in sub-Saharan Africa and the world," US Ambassador Deborah Malac says. (matookerepublic.com)
  • The recent promotion of male circumcision as a public health strategy is based on research evidence from three randomised control trials conducted in South Africa, Kisumu in Kenya, and Rakai in Uganda. (ac.ke)
  • Crabb C. Male circumcision to prevent heterosexual HIV transmission gets (another) green light, but traditional circumcision in Africa has shocking number of complications. (i-base.info)
  • Should we really be funding mass circumcision in Africa? (iranian.com)
  • This article in AIDS Care reports the findings of focus group discussions that explored barriers and facilitators to the uptake of voluntary medical male circumcision in Uganda. (malecircumcision.org)
  • The MC program on which this paper is based is supported by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), under the terms of CDC Cooperative agreement 5U2GGH000972 to I-TECH. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. (plos.org)
  • Male circumcision can lower both an individual's risk of infection and, hopefully, the rate of HIV spread through the community,' said AIDS expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. (advocate.com)
  • As a signatory to the United Nations, says Dr. Nelson Musoba, the Director of Planning and Strategic Information at Uganda Aids Commission (UAC), Uganda like other member countries agreed to end the epidemic by 2030.The UAC is the government institution that oversees implementation of programmes aimed at combating the disease. (independent.co.ug)
  • From October 2014 to September 2015, US$387 million was spent on tacking HIV related problems in Uganda under the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). (independent.co.ug)
  • In a development that can be aptly regards as 'path-breaking,' in the battle against the fatal AIDS disease, a medical journal article published on Friday says that a data that is surely 'beyond question' shows there is no doubt that circumcision reduces men's chances of catching HIV by up to 60 percent. (healthjockey.com)
  • A modeling study last year projected that in the next decade, male circumcision could prevent 2 million AIDS infections and 300,000 deaths. (healthjockey.com)
  • Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) has been recognized by the World Health Organization and Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS as an effective human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection prevention intervention in settings with a generalized HIV epidemic and low male circumcision prevalence. (cdc.gov)
  • Due to rapidly expanding HIV treatment, the number of AIDS-related deaths in Uganda fell from 51,000 in 2010 to 17,000 in 2021 - three times fewer deaths. (beintheknow.org)
  • Uganda began the first national AIDS control programme in 1986 and was the first African country to begin to reverse its HIV epidemic. (beintheknow.org)
  • In 2007, voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) was endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS after it was found to be associated with approximately a 60% reduction in the risk for female-to-male transmission of HIV (1). (cdc.gov)
  • Many African countries initially ignored the AIDS crisis, but some nations - like Uganda and Zimbabwe - were successful in providing public health information and slowing the spread of the disease. (kbbi.org)
  • Prof Ndinya was also among the leading researchers spearheading Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) in Kisumu, whose uptake helped reduce infection rates of HIV by 60 per cent, according to the National Aids and STIs Control Programme (NASCOP). (co.ke)
  • China's commitment to implementing established and emerging HIV/AIDS prevention and control strategies has led to substantial gains in terms of access to antiretroviral treatment and prevention services, but the evolving and multifaceted HIV/AIDS epidemic in China highlights the challenges of maintaining that response. (mdpi.com)
  • In July 2012, the WHO published a study [4] (just in time for the just then started Circumcision Debate in Germany) which recommended to perform circumcisions as a prevention against HIV / AIDS . (intactiwiki.org)
  • David Tigawalana, an epidemiologist and coordinator of HIV Prevention, Uganda Aids Commission, wrote in the Daily Monitor that HIV disproportionately affects women. (newsdesk.org)
  • Uganda is making progress towards achieving an AIDS-free generation by 2030, according to the Centre for Disease Control-CDC. (matookerepublic.com)
  • The report notes that with an estimated 1.35 million Ugandans living with HIV/Aids, contracting the disease is no longer a death sentence, as Uganda has started taking control of the deadly disease, which has seen a reduction in infections. (matookerepublic.com)
  • Ambassador Malac, notes that 94 per cent of the people living with HIV in Uganda on the lifelong anti-retroviral therapy receive their medications through- President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief-PEPFAR. (matookerepublic.com)
  • Still on the prevention front, Mark Meassick, the USAID Mission Director in Uganda says they are empowering adolescent girls and young women in selected districts to curb the increasing HIV/Aids prevalence rates. (matookerepublic.com)
  • We must maintain the momentum and commitment to both scaling up currently available and evidence-based prevention strategies and finding a long-term solution to eliminate AIDS. (health.mil)
  • HIV/AIDS in Uganda: 30 Years On! (avac.org)
  • Recognized by Ambassador Malac at an awards ceremony on November 29, these individuals have dedicated their personal and professional efforts towards creating an AIDS-free generation in Uganda. (usembassy.gov)
  • Can Uganda finish its Aids epidemic? (condomcondom.org)
  • Aids-related deaths in Uganda peaked in 1999 at 74,000 but have dropped since then, the UN states. (condomcondom.org)
  • Important limitations to the protective benefits from circumcision, prompted by a 2008 WHO review by Robert Bailey and colleagues, of complications during male circumcision in Kenya [1], were discussed in a recent editorial article in the 2 January 2010 journal AIDS. (i-base.info)
  • The Role of religion and ethics in the prevention and control of AIDS. (who.int)
  • Within Mazowe District, Zimbabwe, the prevalence of male circumcision was noted to be higher than the 10% that was reported by the WHO in 2009 [11]. (inosr.net)
  • Though government has been working on enrolling everyone who needs treatment on ARVs and also preventing infection through programmes such as prevention of mother to child HIV transmission, voluntary male circumcision and other behavior change campaigns, the money is still inadequate. (independent.co.ug)
  • In 2013, Benon took on the daunting assignment of promoting safe voluntary male circumcision at 11 regional hospitals. (usembassy.gov)
  • Male circumcision is defined as the partial or total surgical removal of the foreskin (also called prepuce ), which is specialized tissue that covers the head (or glans ) of the penis. (evidencebasedbirth.com)
  • Since long, circumcision - the surgical removal of the foreskin of the penis, has been suspected of reducing men's vulnerability to HIV infection because the cells in the foreskin of the penis are especially susceptible to the virus. (healthjockey.com)
  • Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) is the surgical removal of the foreskin of the penis by trained healthcare providers after the client's consent [6]. (inosr.net)
  • This analysis assessed the effect of circumcision on syphilis, hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and HIV. (cdc.gov)
  • for example, Brian Morris, Professor Emeritus at The University of Sydney, Australia, advocates that infant circumcision should be "made compulsory" (Morris, 2009). (evidencebasedbirth.com)
  • They argue that circumcision is a traumatic experience for the infant, as well as a violation of the child's right to bodily integrity (removing significant tissue from an intact sexual organ without consent). (evidencebasedbirth.com)
  • Of note, this decreased risk seems to be associated only with infant circumcision and not with adult procedures. (medscape.com)
  • A three-month-old infant has died allegedly due to haphazard circumcision carried out at a medical centre in Maligawatte yesterday, police said. (blogspot.com)
  • The WHO endorsement, along with the "research" that was used to author it, has been bandied about by circumcision proponents to promote *infant* circumcision in America, of all places. (joseph4gi.com)
  • David R. Tomlinson (2008) is the inventor of the AccuCirc device for infant circumcision. (intactiwiki.org)
  • [10] He also wrote a manual on infant circumcision (2011) for the World Health Organization. (intactiwiki.org)
  • In 24% of the traditional cases and 19% of the medical cases, the wound had still not healed after 60 days (p=0.056) in contrast to 96% healed by 30 days in the randomised male circumcision in Kisumu, Kenya. (i-base.info)
  • Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) has been shown to reduce the risk for heterosexually acquired HIV among men by approximately 60% in three randomized controlled trials ( 2-5 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Three main providers include the Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau, Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau, and the Uganda Muslim Medical Bureau. (wikipedia.org)
  • At the national level are the national referral hospitals, regional referral hospitals, and semi-autonomous institutions including the Uganda Blood Transfusion Services, the Uganda National Medical Stores, the Uganda Public Health Laboratories and the Uganda National Health Research Organization (UNHRO). (wikipedia.org)
  • In addition, the Uganda Medical Association (UMA) seeks to "provide programs that support the social welfare and professional interests of medical doctors in Uganda and to promote universal access to quality health and health care. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Clearinghouse's Resource Library contains hundreds of resources on voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention. (malecircumcision.org)
  • Provision of voluntary medical male circumcision through a mobile hospital outreach programme in rural Swaziland resulted in the identification and correction of a variety of. (malecircumcision.org)
  • Ensuring quality service provision is fundamental to ZAZIC's voluntary medical male circumcision (MC) program in Zimbabwe. (plos.org)
  • Voluntary medical male circumcision is one of the proven, high-impact HIV prevention services recommended for combination prevention packages for men in eastern and southern. (malecircumcision.org)
  • The deliberations and recommendations of an expert consultation on voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) and tetanus are summarized in this report. (malecircumcision.org)
  • Developed for use at facilities or other sites where voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) will be offered, this guide provides implementing partners with a comprehensive and. (malecircumcision.org)
  • Developed for use at facilities or other sites where voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) will be offered, the. (malecircumcision.org)
  • Presentation on the global regulatory model governing introduction of new medical technologies delivered at the Meeting on Use of Devices for Medical Male Circumcision for. (malecircumcision.org)
  • In the U.S., the overall rate of newborn circumcision is on the decline, but circumcision is still the most frequent procedure performed on children during hospital stays-more than 10 times as common as any other pediatric surgical procedure, and the only surgical procedure that is regularly performed without any urgent medical need on healthy infants (Witt et al. (evidencebasedbirth.com)
  • 2014). Circumcision is so familiar and routine in U.S. culture that many parents and care providers scarcely even think of it as a surgical procedure, viewing it instead as one of several relatively minor newborn medical procedures performed at the hospital before discharge. (evidencebasedbirth.com)
  • So why are we discussing the ethics along with the medical evidence on circumcision? (evidencebasedbirth.com)
  • Controlled trial of medical therapy for active upper gastrointestinal bleeding and prevention of rebleeding. (keywen.com)
  • Johns Hopkins researchers and colleagues report that HIV prevention techniques, such as antiretroviral therapy, medical male circumcision, HIV testing and sex education, can effectively reduce the number of new HIV infections in communities in Uganda. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
  • Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) reduces the risk for heterosexually acquired HIV infection among males by approximately 60% ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Failure of medical treatment warrants surgical intervention, usually in the traditional form of a circumcision or preputioplasty. (medscape.com)
  • Female circumcision, which is likely better termed "genital mutilation," has been practiced for centuries by some cultures but is an unacceptable practice and without medical benefit. (medscape.com)
  • No further trials are required to establish that HIV infection rates are reduced in heterosexual men for at least the first two years after circumcision," says lead researcher Nandi Siegfried, Co-director of the South African Cochrane Centre at the South African Medical Research Council. (healthnewstrack.com)
  • Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) has primarily been promoted for HIV prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) is an HIV prevention intervention that has predominantly targeted adolescent and young men, aged 10-24 years. (cdc.gov)
  • There was an initial surge of men lining up to get circumcised at medical facilities, but that has pretty much died down, and now circumcision promoters are at their wit's end trying to encourage more men to get circumcised. (joseph4gi.com)
  • The primary objective of this investigation was to identify the determinants influencing the adoption of voluntary medical male circumcision services among bachelor's male medical students at Kampala International University Teaching Hospital (KIU-TH). (inosr.net)
  • Notably, 38.7% of students reported being circumcised, with 68.1% undergoing voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC). (inosr.net)
  • Despite this, the uptake of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision remained below national targets. (inosr.net)
  • Voluntary medical male circumcision has been shown to provide a 50% - 70% reduction in the risk of HIV infection without contributing to behavioral disinhibition of safer sexual practices [9]. (inosr.net)
  • He says: "I chose to change the lives of the current and future generations through the right information about lifesaving services like safe voluntary medical male circumcision. (usembassy.gov)
  • The participants had either a traditional circumcision performed in a village or within a household compound, or a medical circumcision performed by someone the participant considered to be a clinician in a hospital, health centre, dispensary or private office. (i-base.info)
  • Many traditional circumcisions continued to bleed and needed medical support. (i-base.info)
  • As medical historian David Gollaher recounts in his book Circumcision: A History of the World's Most Controversial Surgery , early Christian leaders abandoned the practice, realising perhaps that their religion would be more attractive to converts if surgery wasn't required. (iranian.com)
  • His reputation was such that when he praised the benefits of circumcision - which he did in the Transactions of the American Medical Association and elsewhere until he died in 1900 - surgeons elsewhere followed suit. (iranian.com)
  • He now travels the country, sharing movies and messages through his megaphone, to communicate about the benefits of safe circumcision. (usembassy.gov)
  • Countrywide, Benon's van is now known as the "circumcision van," in which men can receive information about health and safe circumcision. (usembassy.gov)
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) established a Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Innovations in Male Circumcision in 2010 to advise WHO on the safety, acceptability, and public. (malecircumcision.org)
  • The World Health Organization convened a meeting in Entebbe, Uganda, on 13 and 14 November 2013 to inform key stakeholders about the details of a new guideline. (malecircumcision.org)
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) identifies this "theoretical or possible risk" in its current classification of three products: DMPA, NET-EN (another injectable that uses a different hormone from DMPA) and DMPA-SC, also known as Sayana Press, which is the same hormone as Depo but uses a different, simpler delivery method. (avac.org)
  • Substantial progress toward achieving VMMC targets has been made in the 10 years since the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS recommended scale-up of VMMC for HIV prevention in 14 Southern and Eastern African countries with generalized HIV epidemics and low male circumcision prevalence ( 3 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Promoters of circumcision would like to pretend as if circumcision were this "brand new innovative technology" that they've only "just found" yesterday, when history tells us that circumcision advocates have been trying to make circumcision relevant to medicine for at least 150 years . (joseph4gi.com)
  • Since forming in 2008, the "Singing Children," as they are known, have become ambassadors and advocates throughout Uganda in the fight against HIV. (usembassy.gov)
  • Among the Bukusu, in western Kenya, a young male child is obliged by customary practice, to undergo the traditional circumcision. (blogspot.com)
  • Invest in Prevention describes the UNAIDS "Quarter for HIV Prevention" campaign. (malecircumcision.org)
  • The United States (U.S.) is unusual in that the vast majority of newborn circumcisions performed in the country are done for non-religious reasons (WHO/UNAIDS, 2007). (evidencebasedbirth.com)
  • This helped Uganda reach the UNAIDS' 2020 target of ensuring at least 73% of people with HIV have supressed viral loads (reached at the end of 2020). (beintheknow.org)
  • WHO and UNAIDS recommend MC as an emphasis for efficacious intervention for HIV prevention in countries and regions with heterosexual epidemics, high HIV, and low circumcision prevalence. (inosr.net)
  • Circumcision is also known as the world's most controversial surgery (Gollaher, 2000). (evidencebasedbirth.com)
  • Uganda began offering needle and syringe programmes in 2017. (beintheknow.org)
  • Policy makers can consider implementing circumcision as an additional measure into HIV prevention programmes. (healthnewstrack.com)
  • The original study, available online without subscription, deserves reading in full by anyone rushing to roll-out circumcision programmes on a community level. (i-base.info)
  • On the 30th anniversary, we defined priorities as improving use of existing interventions, clarifying optimal use of HIV testing and antiretroviral therapy for prevention and treatment, continuing research, and ensuring sustainability of the response. (cdc.gov)
  • Relief (PEPFAR), through partnerships with U.S. government of circumcision or traditional surgical technique). (cdc.gov)
  • They further argue that the touted health benefits of circumcision are infrequent, minor or outweighed by surgical risks or other harms, and since these benefits can be achieved non-surgically-through ordinary hygiene, vaccinations, and safe sex practices-they do not justify involuntary genital surgery. (evidencebasedbirth.com)
  • However, potential psychological and surgical complications have led to closer scrutiny of routine neonatal circumcision. (medscape.com)
  • In many countries, male circumcision is practiced as part of the rites of initiation by traditional healers who are not trained in aseptic surgical techniques. (healthnewstrack.com)
  • Circumcision is one of the oldest surgical procedures, dating from the Neolithic age. (inosr.net)
  • Dubbed the '100 Heart Repaired', the campaign targets children aged 0-14 years with heart defects that need surgical interventions and will cost the Indian Association in Uganda at least 2.4 billion Shillings. (hejnu.ug)
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • A few weeks before the protests, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had suggested that healthcare professionals talk to men and parents about the benefits of the procedure, which include protection from some sexually transmitted diseases, and the risks, which the CDC describes as low. (iranian.com)
  • However, human trials have not studied the effect of green tea or its constituents for the treatment or prevention of hives. (keywen.com)
  • The findings were first announced in December, when initial results from two major trials - in Kenya and Uganda - showed promising links between circumcision and HIV transmission. (healthjockey.com)
  • Three recent African trials support male circumcision for reducing the risk of contracting HIV in heterosexual men. (healthnewstrack.com)
  • After including new data from these trials in their review, Cochrane Researchers have changed their previous conclusions that there was insufficient evidence to recommend circumcision as an intervention to prevent HIV infection in heterosexual men. (healthnewstrack.com)
  • Previous non-randomised studies investigated the association between circumcision and HIV, but until now, Cochrane researchers have been unable to make strong recommendations for the intervention due to a lack of high quality evidence gained from randomised clinical trials. (healthnewstrack.com)
  • Back in 2010, the same group of "researchers" tried to push this "discovery" as a possible explanation for the supposed "results" in the African circumcision "trials. (joseph4gi.com)
  • Most people don't know this, but while they are paraded around as being "the gold standard," well-known African circumcision "trials" are horrendously flawed. (joseph4gi.com)
  • Daily and Nondaily Oral Preexposure Prophylaxis in Men and Transgender Women Who Have Sex With Men: The Human Immunodeficiency Virus Prevention Trials Network 067/ADAPT Study. (umassmed.edu)
  • Characteristics Associated With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Transmission Networks Involving Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Prevention Trials Network 068 Study. (umassmed.edu)
  • Challenges in the design of HIV prevention trials in the United States. (umassmed.edu)
  • Use of a multifaceted approach to analyze HIV incidence in a cohort study of women in the United States: HIV Prevention Trials Network 064 Study. (umassmed.edu)
  • Depression and Incident HIV in Adolescent Girls and Young Women in HIV Prevention Trials Network 068: Targets for Prevention and Mediating Factors. (umassmed.edu)
  • Treatment as Prevention: Characterization of Partner Infections in the HIV Prevention Trials Network 052 Trial. (umassmed.edu)
  • Antiretroviral Drug Use in a Cohort of HIV-Uninfected Women in the United States: HIV Prevention Trials Network 064. (umassmed.edu)
  • Even if the recent trials were accurate (and their credibility is highly questionable), circumcision could only reduce the relative risk of acquiring HIV between circumcised and uncircumcised men by 60% over a period of about one year. (intactiwiki.org)
  • Pain upon urination, incomplete circumcision requiring repeat surgery, and lacerations of the glans, the scrotum and the thighs were also reported. (i-base.info)
  • Dr. Musoba says Uganda has had some success in reducing new infections.He says the country has seen a reduction in the number of new infections from 137,000 per year in 2013 to 99,000 in 2014. (independent.co.ug)
  • Behaviour change efforts - including age-appropriate sex education, and targeted HIV prevention campaigns - have not been widespread enough to reduce HIV infections as much as is needed. (beintheknow.org)
  • To reduce this risk, WHO recommends that these patients receive a "package of care" that includes testing for and prevention of the most common serious infections that can cause death, such as tuberculosis and cryptococcal meningitis, in addition to ART. (who.int)
  • Evidence also supports that male circumcision offers protection against other sexually transmitted infections. (cdc.gov)
  • On their website [8] , they acknowledge that, even if the latest "studies" were correct, "[m]ale circumcision provides only partial protection," and that it should be part of a "comprehensive HIV prevention package" that includes HIV testing and counseling services, treatment for STD infections, the promotion of safer sex practices and the provision of condoms and the promotion of their correct and consistent use. (intactiwiki.org)
  • She also noted that more than 2.1 million Ugandans underwent Safe Male Circumcision, which can help reduce the spread and HIV infections. (matookerepublic.com)
  • Over the past decade, the annual number of new HIV infections and HIV-related deaths has been declining steadily in most regions of the world, primarily due to significant scale-up in prevention and treatment. (bvsalud.org)
  • Those in favor of routine circumcision generally believe it should be kept available as a parental choice in light of possible health benefits. (evidencebasedbirth.com)
  • At least 16 members of the GDG are biased in favor of circumcision, while only 7 members have unclear points of view. (intactiwiki.org)
  • Chances are that they are also strongly involved in this topic and take a position in favor of circumcision. (intactiwiki.org)
  • Circumcision proponents use this study [5] for justifying even circumcisions on male toddlers and infants in Germany, Europe and Northern America. (intactiwiki.org)
  • On one hand, there are communities that do not traditionally circumcise and those who see such campaigns to take up male circumcision (MC) as an affront to their culture [5]. (inosr.net)
  • Introduction Safe male circumcision (SMC) is one of the elements in comprehensive HIV care strategy in prevention of HIV transmission from an infected woman to a man, but uptake was still very low in Gomba. (mak.ac.ug)
  • Socio-demographic including age group above 40 (PR=28, at 95% CI, 0.15 - 0.51) method of HIV prevention (PR=79 at 95 CI, 0.1 - 0.54) and reading Newspapers (PR=44 at 95% CI, 0.2-0.8), were significantly related to SMC uptake. (mak.ac.ug)
  • CDC-supported VMMC programs in Kenya and Uganda performed the most VMMCs during these years: 386,752 and 205,812, respectively ( Table 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The National Institutes of Health closed the studies in Kenya and Uganda early, after safety monitors took a look at initial results this week and noted the degree of protection. (advocate.com)
  • In Swaziland, the "Soka Uncobe" (or "Circumcise and Conquer") campaign was launched with the intention of circumcising 80% of the male Swazi population (that's 200,000 men), but the program ended in failure , as after four years, the program was able to convince only 20% (roughly 34,000 men) of the population to undergo circumcision. (joseph4gi.com)
  • The practice of circumcision has ancient origins, and continues today around the world for various religious and cultural reasons. (evidencebasedbirth.com)
  • They expressed concern that talking about circumcision as a health-related decision for parents normalizes an unethical practice and ignores the right of children to avoid medically unnecessary surgery on a private part of their body, regardless of parental preference. (evidencebasedbirth.com)
  • JBS 2: Joint British Societies' guidelines on prevention of cardiovascular disease in clinical practice. (keywen.com)
  • Prevention of coronary heart disease in clinical practice. (keywen.com)
  • To better understand how circumcision might affect men's sexual lives, researchers evaluated possible relationships between men's attitudes towards their circumcision status, the. (malecircumcision.org)
  • Researchers analysed longitudinal data from a large population cohort of South African men to measure the effect of incident circumcision on sexual behaviours. (malecircumcision.org)
  • The researchers warn that policy makers also need to think about the culture and environment in which circumcision is carried out. (healthnewstrack.com)
  • Yes, "researchers" have found that circumcision changes the bacterial environment. (joseph4gi.com)
  • The researchers also interviewed 21 traditional and 20 clinical people who carried out the circumcisions. (i-base.info)
  • After interviewing approximately two-thirds of participants and directly following the 24 cases, the researchers found very high rates of complications and decided to directly examine and interview the remaining 298 men, (range 45 - 89 days after circumcision). (i-base.info)
  • Research on the effectiveness of male circumcision for preventing HIV in heterosexual men is conclusive. (healthnewstrack.com)
  • The results show that circumcision in heterosexual men significantly reduces their risk of acquiring HIV by 54% over a two year period, compared with uncircumcised men. (healthnewstrack.com)
  • male circumcision should be considered an efficacious intervention for HIV prevention in countries and regions with heterosexual epidemics, high HIV and low male circumcision prevalence. (intactiwiki.org)
  • Conversely, heterosexual men are perceived as active transmitters of HIV but not active agents in prevention. (aphapublications.org)
  • Circumcision may help to protect against HIV by removing cells in the foreskin to which the virus is specifically attracted. (healthnewstrack.com)
  • They have to gloss over the fact that they've yet to establish a scientifically demonstrable causal link between the presence of the foreskin and increased HIV transmission, and/or between circumcision and decreased HIV transmission. (joseph4gi.com)
  • This view holds that the prepuce has negligible value (the tissue wouldn't be missed) and circumcision is a simple procedure ("a little snip") that may even reduce the risk of the child acquiring and spreading certain diseases later in life. (evidencebasedbirth.com)
  • Though there is no definitive explanation of why circumcision began, many historians believe this relief, carved more than four thousand years ago, is the oldest known record of the procedure. (iranian.com)
  • In generalized epidemics, many adolescents living with HIV acquired the infection perinatally because either their mothers were not enrolled in prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) interventions or as infants they were not diagnosed postnatally (5,6) . (bvsalud.org)
  • In countries with concentrated epidemics, exposure through drug use is often coupled with other high-risk behaviours, such as transactional sex--a major driv r of HIV transmission Th criminalization of `illicit' activiti s ( g drug us , transactional s x, m n having sex with men) in many countries intensifies exclusion from prevention and treatment services, including HIV testing and counselling (HTC) (7) . (bvsalud.org)
  • 1% of the population is HIV-positive) and low male circumcision prevalence* prioritize scale-up of VMMC for HIV prevention ( 8 ). (cdc.gov)
  • What about the cultural acceptability of male circumcision? (harvard.edu)
  • The policy of using nevirapine with HIV positive pregnant women is based on HIVNET 012 , a deeply flawed (according to Farber) DAIDS/NIH study conducted in Uganda back in 1997. (blogspot.com)
  • This report by 2012 AVAC Advocacy Fellow Alice Kayongo-Mutebi describes successes and challenges in a year-long campaign to expand access to antiretroviral treatment for HIV positive people in Uganda. (avac.org)
  • Men who become circumcised must not quit using condoms nor take other risks, and circumcision offers no protection from HIV acquired through anal sex or injection drug use, he noted. (advocate.com)
  • They can't also say "Circumcision fails to prevent HIV, so circumcised men still have to wear condoms" either, because that would drive HIV charity donors, not to mention the men they're trying to convince, away. (joseph4gi.com)
  • [9] Condoms have an absolute reduction risk of acquiring HIV that's over 95% (closer to 100% when used properly), making circumcision a moot point. (intactiwiki.org)
  • Uganda runs a decentralized health system with national and district levels. (wikipedia.org)
  • At the beginning of the 21st century, the government of Uganda began implementing a series of health sector reforms that were aimed at improving the poor health indicators prevailing at the time. (wikipedia.org)
  • Less commonly, circumcision is sometimes done for health-related reasons. (evidencebasedbirth.com)
  • The WHO plans an international meeting early next year to discuss the studies' results and how to translate them into policies that promote safe male circumcision performed by trained health workers with sterile equipment while also teaching men that it won't make them invulnerable. (advocate.com)
  • Instead of issuing papers and arguments about how hard and risky it will be to change anything if ECHO does indeed find that a given method impacts risk, global and national decision makers need to send the message: This is an opportunity to advance women's health via integration of HIV prevention and contraceptive programs and expanding the method mix of both. (avac.org)
  • However, experts caution that solid evidence is not explanation for mass circumcisions, noting that African health systems are already overburdened and circumcision requires more planning than, for example, an immunization campaign. (healthjockey.com)
  • In 2019, Uganda made free HIV self-testing kits available from public health facilities, and to buy from pharmacies. (beintheknow.org)
  • there are other, deep-running convictions to defend circumcision which have absolutely nothing to do with a genuine concern for disease prevention and public health. (joseph4gi.com)
  • PURPOSE: An understanding of the cultural and context-specific perceptions of the causes of cancer is an important prerequisite for designing effective primary health prevention and early detection strategies. (bvsalud.org)
  • CONCLUSION: The results underscore the need for increased community awareness of biomedical causes of ill health and patient-based participatory research to inform prevention programs. (bvsalud.org)
  • Get updates on new resources, events and news on HIV prevention & global health equity. (avac.org)
  • AVAC is an international non-profit organization that leverages its independent voice and global partnerships to accelerate ethical development and equitable delivery of effective HIV prevention options, as part of a comprehensive and integrated pathway to global health equity. (avac.org)
  • Benon Baguma has been supporting health education and promotion as a film van driver with the Uganda Ministry of Health since 1992. (usembassy.gov)
  • Circumcision isn't advised for health reasons in Europe, for instance, because the benefits remain unclear. (iranian.com)
  • In 2010, the Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA63.18, which refers to the need for a comprehensive approach to the prevention and control of viral hepatitis. (who.int)
  • The majority of procedures are performed in infancy or childhood, but in some cultures, circumcision is part of initiation rituals marking the transition from adolescence to adulthood (e.g. (inosr.net)
  • HIV service delivery entails HIV testing, prevention, treatment and care services provided for people at risk of acquiring HIV, people living with HIV (PLHIV), their partners, families and caregivers. (who.int)
  • In Uganda, infection among circumcised men saw a 48% decline compared to their uncircumcised counterparts. (advocate.com)
  • Univariate and multivariable logistic regression models were created using pooled PHIA data across the five countries to assess the effect of male circumcision on HIV, active and ever syphilis, and HBV infection among sexually active males aged 15-59 years. (cdc.gov)
  • Does Incident Circumcision Lead to Risk Compensation? (malecircumcision.org)
  • A prospective randomized trial of prevention measures in patients at high risk for contrast nephropathy: results of the P.R.I.N.C.E. Study. (keywen.com)
  • In 2006, three "studies" that claimed male circumcision "reduced the risk of HIV transmission by 60%" were published. (joseph4gi.com)
  • Male circumcision and risk of HIV acquisition among MSM. (umassmed.edu)
  • They answer that question by noting that male circumcision (MC) provides that kind of risk reduction potential and also one which potentially provides an "'African solution to African problems. (harvard.edu)
  • People with a neck circumference of 35 centimeters and beyond have a higher risk of developing heart disease, experts at the Uganda Heart Institute (UHI) have established in their latest research. (hejnu.ug)
  • Circumcision promoters have tried everything in the book, from celebrity endorsement , to songs on the radio , to art exhibitions , to patriarchal endorsement , to legislative proposition of compulsory circumcision for all (there goes the "voluntary" part of the program. (joseph4gi.com)
  • In fact, when we announced that we were going to cover this topic, we heard from many people angry that we are even talking about the evidence on circumcision. (evidencebasedbirth.com)
  • In this article, we explore the research evidence as well as the ethical debate around routine circumcisions performed on healthy newborn males. (evidencebasedbirth.com)
  • advances in structural and behavioral interventions are reviewed in the CDC Compendium of Evidence-Based Interventions and Best Practices for HIV Prevention ( 3 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Meanwhile, Western organisations are paying for the circumcision of millions of African men in an attempt to rein in HIV - a campaign that critics say is also based on questionable evidence. (iranian.com)