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Africa: New Weapon in the War Against HIV
The Herald, 13 September 2012
HIV and Aids and other sexually transmitted infections continue to burden young African women because of various reasons, chief among them cultural issues that prevent them from ... read more »
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Zimbabwe: Male Circumcision Is the Way Forward
The Herald, 30 August 2012
We have made great strides in the fight against HIV in the past decade and we are seeing the fruits of our labour paying off. HIV treatment has saved millions of lives around the ... read more »
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Zimbabwe: Target Set to Be Missed
The Herald, 24 August 2012
ZIMBABWE and other African countries are likely to miss the target of circumcising 80 percent of adult men by the year 2015. This came out in a report released by a selected panel ... read more »
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Zimbabwe: Clinton Hails Legislators' Circumcision
The Herald, 25 July 2012
United States Secretary of State Mrs Hillary Clinton has lauded 40 Zimbabwean parliamentarians who recently underwent voluntary male circumcision. read more »
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Zimbabwe: Stamps Scoffs At Circumcision
Zimbabwe Standard, 22 July 2012
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's health advisor, Timothy Stamps, has rubbished claims that male circumcision reduces HIV and Aids prevalence rate at a time the country had embarked on a ... read more »
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Zimbabwe: Is Circumcision Not a Costly Sideshow? (analysis)
Zimbabwe Standard, 1 July 2012
ZIMBABWE continues to promote male circumcision as an HIV and Aids prevention method despite research that questions the practice, meaning tens of thousands of circumcised people ... read more »
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Zimbabwe: Circumcision - A First Hand Experience
The Herald, 5 July 2012
It all started as a casual conversation on the benefits of circumcision with my friend Jonathan as we sat in the newsroom on a Friday morning last month. But, where it ended, even ... read more »
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Zimbabwe: MPs Get Circumcised in Aids Fight
SW Radio Africa, 22 June 2012
Dozens of MP's on Friday underwent voluntary counselling and public testing for HIV in an effort to encourage other citizens to follow suit. read more »
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YES, CIRCUMCISION IS A VARY GOOD MOVE !!! AFRICANS ARE BOUND TO CARRY OUT THEIR CULTURES, SOCIETIES OR ANY OTHER THAT IS/ARE RELATED AS A/AN AFRICAN.
If anyone thinks that male circumcision will reduce the sexual transmission of HIV then they are seriously misinformed.
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/december112011/circumcision-hiv-rg.php
As for the AAP policy statement (2012) see what OXFORD UNIVERSITY says about this unethical report, that was drafted by self-appointed AAP members, ALL of whom had religious, cultural, financial, or professional career vested interests:
http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2012/08/the-aap-report-on-circumcision -bad-science-bad-ethics-bad-medicine/
Scaling up male circumcision will NOT reduce new HIV infections!
Circumcision (sexual-reduction surgery) does NOT reduce the female-to-male transmission of HIV by 60% as misleadingly claimed. This is a relative figure only. The actual (absolute) risk reduction was only 1.3% which is NOT clinically significant.
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/december112011/circumcision-hiv-rg.php
http://www.circumcision.org/hiv.htm Up to 50% of HIV infections are through NON-SEXUAL sources such as medical treatment and cosmetic skin piercing procedures.
Alarmingly, in a parallel Ugandan study by Wawer et al. (2009), there was a 61% relative INCREASE in male-to-female transmission of HIV. Several women in this highly unethical trial became infected with HIV after having sex with their newly circumcised partners.
Circumcision can only worsen the HIV epidemic because: 1) Some men may become HIV infected from the circumcision procedure itself when surgical instruments are inadequately sterilized. 2) At least 25% of men engage in sexual intercourse before their circumcision wounds have healed (half as early as 3 weeks). http://www.aidsmap.com/Quarter-of-men-resume-sex-before-wounds-from-circumc ision-fully-healed-in-Zambian-study/page/2227154/ 3) Many circumcised men mistakenly think that they have a "natural condom" so they believe they are "immune to HIV infection" and can be promiscuous with impunity. How wrong they are!
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