A review of public health, social and ethical implications of voluntary medical male circumcision programs for HIV prevention in sub-Saharan Africa

WK Luseno, S Rennie, A Gilbertson - International journal of impotence …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Ideally, the benefits of public health interventions should outweigh any associated harms,
burdens, and adverse unintended consequences. The intended benefit of voluntary medical …

Genital cutting as gender oppression: time to revisit the WHO paradigm

BD Earp - Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
The World Health Organization (WHO) condemns all medically unnecessary female genital
cutting (FGC) that is primarily associated with people of color and the Global South, claiming …

Barriers, benefits, and behaviour: Voluntary medical male circumcision ideation in a population-based sample of Zambian men

JG Rosen, MA Carrasco, AM Traub… - African Journal of AIDS …, 2021‏ - Taylor & Francis
Reaching ambitious voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) coverage targets requires
a deeper understanding of the multifaceted processes sha** men's willingness to access …

The ethics of stigma in medical male circumcision initiatives involving adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa

S Rennie, A Gilbertson, D Hallfors… - Public Health …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Ongoing global efforts to circumcise adolescent and adult males to reduce their risk of
acquiring HIV constitute the largest public health prevention initiative, using surgical means …

A decade of PrEP: the evolution of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis content and sentiments in South African print news media, 2012–2021

SM Coelho, JG Rosen, G Schulz, K Meek… - Culture, Health & …, 2024‏ - Taylor & Francis
After nearly a decade of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) rollout in sub-Saharan Africa,
there has been limited study of PrEP messaging in news media. We selected twenty South …

Towards a context-specific understanding of masculinities in Eswatini within voluntary medical male circumcision programming

AK Adams, S Day, J Pienaar, N Dlamini… - Culture, health & …, 2022‏ - Taylor & Francis
Compelling evidence from three randomised controlled trials, which showed that voluntary
medical male circumcision (VMMC) reduces HIV acquisition from women to men by up to …

Circumcision as conquest: Masculinity in Eswatini's voluntary medical male circumcision campaign materials

S Rudrum - Global Public Health, 2023‏ - Taylor & Francis
As a public health intervention related to sexual transmission and involving genital surgery,
male circumcision for HIV prevention necessarily relates to understandings of sexuality and …

Morality, Violence, and Ritual Circumcision: Writing with Blood

N Carlin - 2022‏ - taylorfrancis.com
This book uses the Jewish ritual of circumcision to consider how violent acts are embedded
within entrenched moral discourses and offers a new perspective for thinking about …

[PDF][PDF] Invisible men

AK Adams‏ - pure.uva.nl
5 Target setting in many public health programs is largely based on mathematical modelling.
These models are often based on available funding and a timeframe for implementing the …