Circumcision

Circumcision is the removal of the foreskin from the human penis. In the most common procedure, the foreskin is opened, adhesions are removed, and the foreskin is separated from the glans. After that, a circumcision device may be placed, and then the foreskin is cut off. Topical or locally injected anesthesia is generally used to reduce pain and physiologic stress. The procedure is most often an elective surgery performed on babies and children for religious or cultural reasons. Medically, circumcision is a treatment option for problematic cases of phimosis and balanoposthitis that do not resolve with other treatments, and for …

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World Bank Group · 24 April 2024 English

o harmful widowhood practices, o female circumcision or genital mutilation, o abandonment of children


World Bank Group · 23 April 2024 English

o harmful widowhood practices, o female circumcision or genital mutilation, o abandonment of children


World Bank Group · 17 April 2024 English

In 2012 and in 2018, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolutions urging the international community to intensify global efforts to eliminate female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). It also called upon …

CEDAW General Recommendation No. 14: Female Circumcision ........................... 5 1.7 CEDAW General CEDAW General Recommendation No. 14: Female Circumcision (a) That States parties take appropriate view to eradicating the practice of female circumcision. Such measures could include: The collection levels working for the elimination of female circumcision and other practices harmful to women; The encouragement attitudes towards the eradication of female circumcision; The introduction of appropriate educational


IFS: Institute for Fiscal Studies · 15 April 2024 English

First, consistent with the wide heterogeneity in the answers to the subjective probability ques- tions, there is a substantial degree of heterogeneity in the beliefs about the returns and risks …

and R. Thornton (2016). Responding to risk: Circumcision, information, and HIV prevention. Review of


USAID: United States Agency for International Development · 22 March 2024 English

The Request integrates solutions to these issues across sectors and seeks to prevent and respond to GBV by addressing the root causes of violence, improving protection services for survivors, and …

(DREAMS) Partnership, voluntary medical male circumcision, male and female condoms and lubricant distribution 5 million last year). Voluntary Male Medical Circumcision (VMMC) remains a critical prevention intervention Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), Voluntary Male Medical Circumcision (VMMC) for young men and Determined, Resilient pre-exposure prophylaxis, voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV-negative young men, and accelerating pre-exposure prophylaxis, and voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV-negative young men. Tuberculosis ($8


JPR: Institute for Jewish Policy Research · 11 March 2024 English

At the same time, the UK is home to the fifth largest Jewish population in the world, and the capital city, London, houses the fourteenth largest urban Jewish population globally, …

members have a Christmas tree at least some years. Circumcision and Jewish funerals • 85% of British Jews who by a mohel), but about one in ten did not. • Circumcision is more or less universal among Jews identifying periods): Never; Some years; Most years; Every year. Circumcision and Jewish funerals It is customary for Jewish more likely they are to have chosen to have the circumcision carried out by a mohel. All Orthodox families non-practising Jews were least likely to have chosen circumcision (although 60% of them do), and in cases where


Concern Worldwide · 11 March 2024 English

Site visit The Tender Evaluation Committee will make site visits to the bidder’s physical location during the tender evaluation process if deemed necessary to ascertain the bidders’ capacity to provide …

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AU: African Union · 7 March 2024 English

The Medical and Health Services Directorate (MHSD) is one of the Directorates of the African Union Commission (AUC), under the Cabinet of the Deputy Chairperson. [...] OBJECTIVE OF THE ASSIGNMENT: …

basic general surgical procedures including circumcision, complex incision and drainage, complex wound


UN: The United Nations · 5 March 2024 English

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retention, follow-up and adherence. Safe male circumcision and male involvement have remained a core prevention


USAID: United States Agency for International Development · 4 March 2024 English

The Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) are advancing the President’s vision of a more free, open, secure, and prosperous world that delivers for the American …

provision of condoms and voluntary medical male circumcision to prevent infections among young men; preexposure


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