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The male circumcision: the oldest ancient procedure, its past, present and future roles

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dc.creator Mwashambwa, Masumbuko Y.
dc.creator Mwampagatwa, Ipyana H.
dc.creator Rastagaev, Alexender
dc.creator Gesase, Ainory P.
dc.date 2021-05-26T08:09:15Z
dc.date 2021-05-26T08:09:15Z
dc.date 2013
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-20T14:01:47Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-20T14:01:47Z
dc.identifier Mwashambwa, M. Y., Mwampagatwa, I. H., Rastagaev, A., & Gesase, A. P. (2013). The male circumcision: the oldest ancient procedure, its past, present and future roles. Tanzania Journal of Health Research, 15(3).
dc.identifier DOI: https://doi.org/10.4314/thrb.v15i3.8
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/3223
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/3223
dc.description Abstract. Full text article available at https://doi.org/10.4314/thrb.v15i3.8
dc.description Circumcision, a surgical removal of male prepuce has existed throughout human history, and it appears it shall exist until humanity ends. During its entire existence, there have been changing reasons or indications from cultural, traditional, religious and currently medical, and it has vehemently been criticized by some individuals for different reasons and in different countries. Emergency of new diseases particularly Human Immunodeficient virus (HIV) has brought the ancient procedure back on spot light, this has come as a result of recent studies which have demonstrated that it does not only reduces significantly the rate of HIV infection, as well as penile cancer and cervical cancer. This has lead to massive male circumcision campaigns in areas with low prevalence of circumcision. On the other hand the socio-cultural and sexual aspects of male circumcision have been studied but often ignored. This article will therefore increase awareness of male circumcision and the increasing roles with time, recommend up scaling of medical male circumcision and possible safe circumcision training to tradition circumcisers.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Health Research User's Trust Fund
dc.subject Male circumcision
dc.subject Socio-culture
dc.subject Circumcision
dc.subject Human Immunodeficient virus
dc.subject HIV
dc.subject HIV infection
dc.subject Penile cancer
dc.title The male circumcision: the oldest ancient procedure, its past, present and future roles
dc.type Article


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