Namibia: Youth Uses Sport to Preach Voluntary Circumcision
[New Era] Rundu -A young man is combining his love for sport and activism to raise awareness on Voluntary Male Medical Circumcision (VMMC) in the Kavango East and West regions. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - March 11, 2019 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Four Women behind Tanzania ’s Fight to End AIDS
By Carol Bales ,
Advocacy and policy communications manager, IntraHealth InternationalMarch 05, 2019They ' re working to prevent HIV in two of the country ’s hardest-to-reach areas.They are wives. Mothers. Frontline health workers. As advocates, decision-makers, educators, and providers, women in Tanzania are working to end the epidemic in their country.SoIntraHealth International is working with women at all levels through itsToharaPlus project to help end the spread of HIV and reach the UNAIDS 90/90/90 goals, including through voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC).About1.4 million Tanzanians are living with H...
Source: IntraHealth International - March 5, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: mnathe Tags: Tohara Plus HIV & AIDS International Women ' s Day Gender Equality Youth Community Health Workers Nurses Tanzania Source Type: news
Namibia: 14 000 Circumcised in Zambezi Region
[Namibian] Zambezi regional health director Agnes Mwilima says since the implementation of the voluntary medical male circumcision programme in 2010, they have circumcised 14 043 men in the region. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 21, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news
From conversion to ritual murder: re-contextualizing the circumcision charge - Tartakoff P.
In the 1230s, Christian authorities prosecuted Norwich Jews on charges of having seized and circumcised a five-year-old boy in an effort to convert him to Judaism. In the same decade, English chroniclers began to depict this case as an attempted ritual mur... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 16, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Commentary Source Type: news
Tanzania male MPs face circumcision call to stop HIV spread
A female MP calls for checks on whether male MPs had undergone the procedure. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - February 8, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Grandmothers helping to banish female genital circumcision
, which affects millions worldwide (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - February 6, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Nigeria Living With Dying Practice of Female Circumcision
[Vanguard] The challenge of Female Genital Mutilation& Cutting, FGM/C in Nigeria and several countries persists despite efforts to curb it. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 5, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news
The Unkindest Cut? Circumcision Ethics, Evidence, and Activism
(MedPage Today) -- Netflix documentary raises ethical questions, attacks circumcision to prevent HIV in Africa (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - January 17, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Morning Break: Migrant Child's Death; Life Years in Space; Fatal Circumcision
(MedPage Today) -- Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by the MedPage Today staff (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - December 27, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: news
South Africa: Police Hit Traditional Surgeons Running Illegal Initiation Schools
[News24Wire] Around 30 cases have been opened against traditional surgeons operating illegal circumcision schools in the Eastern Cape, following the deaths of 19 initiates. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 23, 2018 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Doctor suspended after multiple botched circumcisions that sent some patients to emergency room
A Winnipeg doctor has been suspended for five months after he performed circumcisions on multiple young patients in an inappropriate manner, including two cases where patients were taken to the emergency room in life-threatening condition, according to a decision from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - December 20, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Manitoba Source Type: news
2 boys almost bled to death in botched circumcisions by Manitoba doctor
Two boys almost bled to death from botched circumcisions performed by a Winnipeg doctor who has been suspended. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - December 20, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Manitoba Source Type: news
Gomco or Mogen for Newborn Circumcision: Is One Better? Gomco or Mogen for Newborn Circumcision: Is One Better?
Which device is associated with more post-op complications?Medscape Pediatrics (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - December 17, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pediatrics Viewpoint Source Type: news
Kenya: Interior Ministry to Supervise Circumcision of Boys in 2019
[Nation] The Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government will from next year supervisor circumcision of boys in wake of torture and death of an initiate a county administrator has said. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 14, 2018 Category: African Health Source Type: news
On the Ground with Tanzania's National Test and Treat Campaign
October 29, 2018To make HIV services available to more Tanzanians, we go where the clients go.“I am waiting for my younger brother to take me home,” Jagad Mabula tells me.He has just received an HIV test and circumcision services at Tinde Health Centre in Tanzania ’s Shinyanga Region and is now sitting on a bench as he waits.Jagad, 24, spent about three hours riding a bicycle from Mwamanyuda village —where he lives with his wife and two children—to this facility to undergo voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC). The procedure will reduce his risk of acquiring HIV through heterosexual intercourse by about 60%....
Source: IntraHealth International - October 29, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: mnathe Source Type: news
