Plans For Non-Surgical Circumcisions in Africa
A non-surgical circumcision device has been developed to assist with male circumcision to stem the spread of HIV. The device will not only be cost effective but also less complicated.
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Development of Male Circumcision Device Prepex
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- GBCHealth
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- GBCHealth
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- 5 July 2013
PrePex won the 2012 GBCHealth Business Action on Health Award for Technology in Health for their non-surgical adult male circumcision device. Here ... see more »
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New Male Circumcision Device Could Save Lives
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- enewschannel
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- enewschannel
- Publication Date:
- 5 July 2013
The Centre for HIV and AIDS Prevention Studies wants to pilot a new circumcision device in South Africa. It has already being successfully used in at ... see more »
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South Africa's president Jacob Zuma has expressed his shock and outrage at the death of more than 25 young men during what was reported as initiation and circumcision rituals. Read more »
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While circumcision has been found to reduce the risk of HIV transmission, some circumcised men are at risk of contracting and spreading the virus believing that it gives them the ... Read more »
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A chorus of ululations pierces the dawn at Pius Nyaga's homestead in eastern Kenya, marking the end of a brief ritual near the family cowshed. Nyaga's son, Antony Mwiti, has just ... Read more »
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Although at first glance male circumcision may not be the most obvious entrée to get people talking about gender equality, activists in the Western Cape in South Africa are ... Read more »
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A study conducted by the government on the prepex male circumcision device was presented recently at a conference on retriviruses and opportunistic infections in Boston, United ... Read more »
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let us all remember what does paul say from the holy bible about circumcision than to pointing fingers and loss our youth due to circumcision
Male circumcision will not thwart AIDS. Most of the US men who have died of AIDS were circumcised at birth.
A 2009 study by Wawer and Gray found that the Ugandan men they circumcised infected their female partners 50% MORE often with deadly HIV than the men they left intact did.
The studies that have led to the new episode of male genital cutting had many flaws and certainly had NO placebo group. How about another study where they bludgeon or lacerate the man's member so it is wounded? They could then bandage it, give him safe sex counseling, giver him CONDOMS and tell him his banged up member can't be used for 6 weeks. This is essentially what occurred with the cut men in the studies that are said to show the 1.3% risk change. Maybe there would be a similar HIV risk change to that which is alleged simply based on a wounding. Maybe it was the WOUND, the 6 weeks of no sex and the condom advice that allowed these men to avoid risk.
The evidence around us shows that there is no risk change from cutting genital parts. The evidence as to developed countries shows that cutting countries often have higher rates than natural countries. Within smaller populations (U.S. Navy...) the cut men get HIV at about the same rate as intact (natural) men. Some studies even show cut being MORE at risk for HIV. A study on Circumcision from Puerto Rico that shows "Circumcised men have accumulated larger numbers of STI in their lifetime, have higher rates of previous diagnosis of warts, and were more likely to have HIV infection." There is clear evidence that "Circumcision does not appear to shield men from most types of STDs in developed nations".
There is no STD advantage to removing parts of men or male babies, there is just sexual dysfunction. We need to defund this across the board and that includes defunding the mutilation of African Men.
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