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Article: "Just a snip"?: a social history of male circumcision.(ROUNDTABLE)
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- Reproductive Health Matters
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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THE last seven years have seen growing advocacy for male circumcision as a means of HIV prevention, commencing first among public health specialists working mainly in the USA, then among some of those working in international organisations, and more recently endorsed as part of a comprehensive package of measures supported by both the World Health Organization and UNAIDS. (1)
Opinions continue to differ sharply as to whether or not to implement this form of prevention * --or how quickly to do so--although there appears to be growing consensus that, as with all HIV-related public health interventions, male circumcision must be promoted in a culturally appropriate, ...