The Angklung is closely related to traditional customs, arts and cultural identity in Indonesia, played during ceremonies such as rice planting, harvest and circumcision.
The upshot of all this activity is a marked reduction in the rate of new infections, though sceptics point out that the fall began before ARV use and circumcision became widespread, and that the role of behavioural changes (including a greater willingness to use condoms) should thus not be underestimated.
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Now many Muslims and Jews are concerned their fundamental traditions are under threat and that circumcision may be the next element of religious freedom to be withdrawn.
International donors and governments should join together to spread the good news about circumcision and make the procedure available everywhere.
There have been quite a few studies that show there is no correlation between circumcision and lower prevalence of HIV.
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Indeed, amid the gloom about microbicides and vaccines, circumcision is the one bright spot in the field of AIDS prevention.
In the most recent case, the infant developed a fever seven days after circumcision and vesicular lesions the following day, according to a press release from the city health department.
As far as your comment above to which I am replying (I have not read the original post to which you are replying), you seem to focus on the supposed medical benefits of circumcision, and are asking for studies that debunk others, or conclude the opposite. (Again, please keep in mind that I have no read the other comments, so I apologize in advance for being repetitive).
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Confronting our circumcision decision over and over has been humbling.
More contentiously, she cited the fact that some European governments ban kosher slaughter, and that there have been proposals in Germany and Norway to ban the circumcision of baby boys.
The Austrians and the Swiss also took the ruling to heart and have banned infant male circumcision in several hospitals in Switzerland as well as in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg.
But the newly-created NHS ruled that circumcision was not medically necessary, and therefore would not be covered.
No other African country that has recently banned female circumcision, including Egypt, Ghana and Burkina Faso, dares enforce the law.
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The National Institutes of Health halted studies in Uganda and Kenya when it became overwhelmingly clear that circumcision significantly reduces men's chances of catching HIV.
The data, released by the UN children's charity and UN population fund on the international day calling for an end to FMG, showed that the younger generation was less vulnerable to female circumcision in 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East where it is usually practised.
But there are an awful lot of anti-circumcision sites administered by Muslims, Jews and others out there, so clearly there are many among the circumcised who are unhappy.
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Other harsh ceremonies, such as circumcision without anesthetic, teeth sharpening, and physical disfiguration, make what I suggest individual investors endure seem like a tiptoe through the tulips by comparison.
There are a number of existing health solutions for girls and women that have the same catalytic potential as male circumcision.
Denmark and Scandinavian governments are also considering limiting the practice of circumcision which has constituted one of the foundational rituals of Judaism for four thousand years.
The CMC volunteers will be trained in how to identify cases of gender-based violence, how to communicate with victims and how to create and animate radio programmes sensitizing the listeners to such issues as early marriage, female circumcision, wife inheritance, incest etc.
And it describes how "intensive efforts" are under way to find effective non-surgical approaches to circumcision - avoiding the need for scalpels or stitches - so that trained nurses could carry out the procedure rather than doctors.
She suspects that by allowing male circumcision while forbidding even a symbolic cut on girls, Western countries show respect for only those religious and cultural practices with which they are already comfortable.
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