The Angry Intactivist- ITALY: Yet Another Circumcision Death
- Poetry Corner - To Me
- Poetry Corner - Circumcision Scar
- Poetry Corner - Lullaby For the Damned
- Circumcision Documentary Twitter Storm Continues
- Circumcision Documentary Making Waves on Netflix, Twitter
- DETROIT: Federal Ban on FGM Declared Unconstitutional
- Poetry Corner - Song Parody: "My Foreskin Home"
- American Circumcision: A Reaction to a Documentary on Circumcision in America
- Poetry Corner - Haiku
- His Body, His Rights – Bonobo3D
- American Couple Researched & Kept Their Son Whole
- Are Baby Boys Free & Equal Citizens?
- Mother Protects Son From Adamant Cutting Father
- No One Deserves to be Mutilated as an Infant
- The Bloodstained Men Meet Cutter Granny
- Babies are Fragile and Precious
- British Woman Knows - Circumcision is Genital Mutilation
- Cutting Infant Genitals is a Sex Crime
- Angela - Portrait of an Ethical Nurse
- Intactivists Educate Doctors at ACOG
- 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
Tag Archives: South Africa
SOUTH AFRICA: Are circumcised men safer sex partners?
Turns out the answer is no. A new study published August 1, 2018 in PLoS One suggests that medically circumcised men over 40 carry higher rates of HIV than intact men or men circumcised as part of an initiation ritual … Continue reading
Posted in Africa
Tagged Africa, AIDS, circumcision, HIV, HIV prevention, PloS One, South Africa, VMMC
IAS 2009: The perils of success: what if the new HIV prevention methods work?
At the International AIDS Society Conference in July, a session was devoted to preparing for success in the PrEP and microbicide trials. One talking head had this to say on getting people to buy into and utilize prevention approaches that … Continue reading
Posted in Medicine
Tagged AIDS, Aidsmap, CDC, circumcision, foreskin, HIV, IAS 2009, International AIDS Society, penis, South Africa, Venter
DEBATE: Should South Africa pursue a mass circumcision drive?
“Opt out” of circumcision at birth? Who exactly is doing the opting? “Thirty years from now we’ll be so glad we did it.” Who will be glad? The government? Surely not the individual who loses his foreskin and still becomes … Continue reading
Posted in Africa
Tagged AIDS, circumcision, genital mutilation, HIV, infant circumcision, Martinson, public health policy, Quinlan, South Africa, Whiteside
In the NYTimes: A Mild Letter to the Editor
A very mild caution in a letter to the editor of the New York Times, above the fold. Circumcision and AIDS To the Editor: Re “W.H.O. Urges Circumcision to Reduce Spread of AIDS” (news article, March 29): Male circumcision may … Continue reading
Posted in Africa
Tagged AIDS, circumcision, HIV, South Africa
AFRICA: Dangerous myths and speculation perculate in the press
American parents have for years carried on circumcising their infant boys after the major medical organizations had come out against the routine practice in an ambiguous sort of way. In other words, the medical groups punted. Leave it to the … Continue reading
Posted in Africa
Tagged AIDS, circumcision, HIV, South Africa
