"In this country, circumcision for infant boys remains a personal decision for the parents, " he says.
Fact is, there is no medical organization in the world that routinely recommends male infant circumcision.
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Do you believe that ALL banning of circumcision is politically motivated, or just male circumcision?
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Some tribal groups use traditional circumcision to mark the transition to manhood, others reject it.
If circumcision is chosen, perhaps Dr. Gurcharan's invention will alleviate most of the pain involved.
Muslim theology might, in theory, allow for some flexibility in the age of circumcision.
We're recommending supervised, safe, sterile environments -- not circumcision out in an open field with rusty instruments.
But the newly-created NHS ruled that circumcision was not medically necessary, and therefore would not be covered.
But recent studies from sub-Saharan Africa have shown that circumcision can reduce male rates of HIV infection.
The AAP took a neutral stance on male circumcision when it last considered the practice in 1999.
In San Francisco, there is a proposition on the ballot for the fall elections to ban circumcision.
The clinical trials suggest that circumcision by itself reduces a man's chance of becoming infected by 50-60%.
In many African countries, male circumcision is a rite of passage, sometimes with dire or lethal results.
Until the subject of the SF anti-circumcision motion came up, I was unaware of the phenomenon of foreskin envy.
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Adult male circumcision resulted in greater than 50% protection against HIV acquisition among heterosexual men in several African countries.
The people involved in banning or attempting to ban circumcision are not on the political fringe of their societies.
Any circumcision campaign in Africa would also have to navigate complicated ethnic terrain.
But medicine only partially helps those who defend circumcision as a religious ritual.
There have been quite a few studies that show there is no correlation between circumcision and lower prevalence of HIV.
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No other African country that has recently banned female circumcision, including Egypt, Ghana and Burkina Faso, dares enforce the law.
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Indeed, amid the gloom about microbicides and vaccines, circumcision is the one bright spot in the field of AIDS prevention.
International donors and governments should join together to spread the good news about circumcision and make the procedure available everywhere.
Now it recommends that the procedure be covered by insurance (though it stops short of backing routine circumcision of babies).
In the Austrian province of Vorarlberg the authorities have ordered state hospitals to stop all non-therapeutic circumcision pending legal clarification.
You state that the Dutch medical association is wrong in stating that no medical association in the world recommends routine circumcision.
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There are a number of existing health solutions for girls and women that have the same catalytic potential as male circumcision.
The other predictor of the scale of the epidemic in African countries, besides rates of circumcision, requires a rather different approach.
While Jews regularly practice circumcision as part of their religion, metzitzah b'peh is limited to a relatively small number of ultra-Orthodox Jews.
Female circumcision is illegal in the UK. The maximum penalty for carrying it out was recently increased from five to 14 years.
Meanwhile in the US, circumcision came to be so widespread, "it became part of how people viewed the normal body, " says Gollaher.
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