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The Male Circumcision Clearinghouse website was created in 2009 by WHO, UNAIDS, FHI and AVAC to provide evidence-based guidance, information, and resources to support the delivery of safe male circumcision services in countries that choose to scale up the procedure as one component of comprehensive HIV prevention services. [113] [114]
Male circumcision is the surgical removal of the foreskin (prepuce) from the human penis. [1]There is substantial disagreement amongst bioethicists and theologians over the practice of circumcision, with many believing that the routine circumcision of neonates for health purposes is a cost-ineffective and ethically-problematic intervention in developed countries, while circumcision on a ...
Circumcision of Abraham's son Isaac. Regensburg Pentateuch, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (c. 1300). The Book of Genesis explains circumcision as a covenant with God given to Abraham, [24] In Judaism it "symbolizes the promise of lineage and fruitfulness of a great nation," [25] the "seal of ownership and the guarantee of relationship between peoples and their god."
The reasoning included evidence that circumcision carried some medical risk; that the operation would be likely to weaken the relationship of the child with his mother, who strongly objected to circumcision without medical necessity; that the child may be subject to ridicule by his peers as the odd one out and that the operation might ...
Circumcision may have been practiced among Homo sapiens prior to the Out of Africa migration. [21] As late as 45,000 BCE, modern humans migrated into Australia. [21] Based on iconographic evidence of Australian Aboriginal peoples from the Paleolithic era, circumcision may have been practiced as early as the Paleolithic by these groups. [21]
Circumcision was the second-most common procedure performed on patients under one year of age, after routine inoculations and prophylactic vaccinations. [56] There are various explanations for why the infant circumcision rate in the United States is different from comparable countries.
Circumcision is widely practiced by the Druze: [65] practiced as a cultural tradition, and has no religious significance. [66] No special interval is specified: Druze infants are usually circumcised shortly after birth, [67] however some remain uncircumcised until age ten or older. [67]
Evidence Based Birth is an online pregnancy and childbirth resource. [1] It was founded in 2012 by nurse Rebecca Dekker. [2] [3] [4] History. According to The Cut ...