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What is an intactivist?
in·tac·tiv·ist [in-tak-tuh-vist]
noun
1. an especially active, vigorous advocate of children's rights, especially the right to genital integrity or the right to be free from genital cutting (circumcision).adjective
2. of or pertaining to intactivism or intactivists: an intactivist organization for the right of male, female, and intersex children to be free from genital cutting.3. advocating for children by vigorously opposing genital cutting (circumcision), especially the cutting of children who lack capacity to consent: Intactivist opponents of the American Academy of Pediatrics picketed their annual conference in New Orleans.
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- AFRICA: Two Boys Die Post-Circumcision Despite Thoughts and Prayers
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- I Had To Witness A Circumcision
Circumstitions News
- FLORIDA: Last charge dropped against mother of spite-circumcised son
- ZIMBABWE: Youth tries to cut off his own foreskin after being teased
- CHILE: Officials oppose 'normalisation' surgery of intersex children
- EASTERN CAPE: Death Toll at 23
- MALAYSIA: Boy loses penis-head in botched medical cutting
- KENYA: Boy faces loss of his penis after botched medical cutting
- KENYA: Knife-rapists go door-to-door
- EASTERN CAPE: 9 male genital cutting deaths so far this season
- JAKARTA: Why female genital cutting is so common in Indonesia
- COPENHAGEN: Danish doctors come out against infant male genital cutting
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AFRICA: Abstract on circumcision as vector for HIV
This is the abstract from a paper that appeared in the Annals of Epidemiology. Sorry I don’t have the full pdf. The main point is that circumcision itself is a vector for the transmission of HIV in limited resource settings … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, AIDS, female circumcision, HIV, Kenya, Lesotho, male circumcision, Tanzania
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AFRICA: Fears circumcision could spread HIV borne out by research
A common fear expressed by UNAIDS and WHO regarding male circumcision has been that the procedure will spread infection both directly through contaminated instruments and by “risk disihibition” – men thinking circumcision has made them immune. This article summarizes recent … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, AIDS, circumcision, female circumcision, HIV, Kenya, Lesotho, Tanzania
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AFRICA: More dangerous than foreskin
The Washington Post makes a timely point in this era of drastic measures that multiple, concurrent sexual partners are a potent driver of HIV infection. But The Washington Post is an American newspaper with an American bias. Hence, we might … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, AIDS, Botswana, Brazil, circumcision, HIV, Lesotho, prevention, San Francisco, Thailand, Washington Post
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