What is it about?
Safety and acceptability of Infant circumcision performed by non-physicians in a resource-limited setting.
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Why is it important?
Circumcision is part of combination HIV prevention in countries with high HIV burden. But circumcising earlier in infancy has potential advantages over circumcising later in life. Scale up would be more efficient with non-physicians, especially nurse-midwives, who are better distributed in resource-limited settings.
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This page is a summary of: Randomised trial of early infant circumcision performed by clinical officers and registered nurse midwives using the Mogen clamp in Rakai, Uganda, BJU International, September 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/bju.13589.
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