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Psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV
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Review: A critical evaluation of arguments opposing male circumcision for HIV prevention in developed countries

Brian J. Morris School of Medical Sciences and Bosch Institute, University of Sydney, NSW, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Robert C. Bailey Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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Jeffrey D. Klausner Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Arleen Leibowitz Department of Public Policy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Richard G. Wamai Department of African-American Studies, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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Jake H. Waskett Circumcision Independent Reference and Commentary Service, Radcliffe, Manchester, UK
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Joya Banerjee Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS, South Africa
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Daniel T. Halperin Department of Health Education and Health Behavior, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Laurie Zoloth Center for Bioethics, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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Helen A. Weiss MRC Tropical Epidemiology Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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Catherine A. Hankins Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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Pages 1565-1575 | Received 03 Aug 2011, Accepted 25 Jan 2012, Published online: 28 Mar 2012

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Robert S. Van Howe. (2018) Expertise or ideology? A response to Morris et al. 2016, ‘Circumcision is a primary preventive against HIV infection: Critique of a contrary meta-regression analysis by Van Howe’. Global Public Health 13:12, pages 1900-1918.
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Brian J. Morris, Gia Barboza, Richard G. Wamai & John N. Krieger. (2018) Circumcision is a primary preventive against HIV infection: Critique of a contrary meta-regression analysis by Van Howe. Global Public Health 13:12, pages 1889-1899.
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Brian J. Morris, Richard G. Wamai, John N. Krieger, Joya Banerjee & Jeffrey D. Klausner. (2017) Male circumcision to prevent syphilis in 1855 and HIV in 1986 is supported by the accumulated scientific evidence to 2015: Response to Darby. Global Public Health 12:10, pages 1315-1333.
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Richard G. Wamai, Brian J. Morris, Robert C. Bailey, Jeffrey D. Klausner & Mackenzie N. Boedicker. (2015) Male circumcision for protection against HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa: The evidence in favour justifies the implementation now in progress. Global Public Health 10:5-6, pages 639-666.
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Brian J Morris, Stephen Moreton & John N Krieger. (2019) Critical evaluation of arguments opposing male circumcision: A systematic review. Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine 12:4, pages 263-290.
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Brian J. Morris, Catherine A. Hankins, Joya Banerjee, Eugenie R. Lumbers, Adrian Mindel, Jeffrey D. Klausner & John N. Krieger. (2019) Does Male Circumcision Reduce Women's Risk of Sexually Transmitted Infections, Cervical Cancer, and Associated Conditions?. Frontiers in Public Health 7.
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Clement Morris Manineng, David MacLaren, Maggie Baigry, Emil Trowalle, Reinhold Muller, Andrew Vallely, Patrick Gesch, Francis Hombhanje & William John McBride. (2017) Re-establishing safer medical-circumcision-integrated initiation ceremonies for HIV prevention in a rural setting in Papua New Guinea. A multi-method acceptability study. PLOS ONE 12:11, pages e0187577.
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Nelli Westercamp, Supriya D. Mehta, Walter Jaoko, Timothy A. Okeyo & Robert C. Bailey. (2017) Penile coital injuries in men decline after circumcision: Results from a prospective study of recently circumcised and uncircumcised men in western Kenya. PLOS ONE 12:10, pages e0185917.
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Aaron T Norton. (2017) Foreskin and the molecular politics of risk. Social Studies of Science 47:5, pages 655-680.
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Marco Vella, Alberto Abrate, Antonina Argo & Alchiede Simonato. 2017. Fundamentals of Sexually Transmitted Infections. Fundamentals of Sexually Transmitted Infections.
Brian J Morris, Sean E Kennedy, Alex D Wodak, Adrian Mindel, David Golovsky, Leslie Schrieber, Eugenie R Lumbers, David J Handelsman & John B Ziegler. (2017) Early infant male circumcision: Systematic review, risk-benefit analysis, and progress in policy. World Journal of Clinical Pediatrics 6:1, pages 89.
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Brian J. Morris, Gia Barboza, Richard G. Wamai & John N. Krieger. (2017) Expertise and Ideology in Statistical Evaluation of Circumcision for Protection against HIV Infection. World Journal of AIDS 07:03, pages 179-203.
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Brian J. Morris, John N. Krieger, Jeffrey D. Klausner & Beth E. Rivin. (2021) The Ethical Course Is To Recommend Infant Male Circumcision — Arguments Disparaging American Academy of Pediatrics Affirmative Policy Do Not Withstand Scrutiny. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 45:4, pages 647-663.
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Beth E. Rivin, Douglas S. Diekema, Anna C. Mastroianni, John N. Krieger, Jeffrey D. Klausner & Brian J. Morris. (2016) Critical Evaluation of Adler’s Challenge to the cdc’s Male Circumcision Recommendations. The International Journal of Children’s Rights 24:2, pages 265-303.
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Brian J Morris, John N Krieger & Jeffrey D Klausner. (2016) Critical evaluation of unscientific arguments disparaging affirmative infant male circumcision policy. World Journal of Clinical Pediatrics 5:3, pages 251.
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J. Steven Svoboda, Peter W. Adler & Robert S. Van Howe. (2021) Circumcision Is Unethical and Unlawful. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 44:2, pages 263-282.
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Inon Schenker & Melvyn Westreich. (2015) Voluntary medical male circumcision: A necessary surgical intervention in curbing HIV/AIDS. The Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 97:9, pages 378-381.
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Jessy G. Dévieux, Anshul Saxena, Rhonda Rosenberg, Jeffrey D. Klausner, Michèle Jean-Gilles, Purnima Madhivanan, Stéphanie Gaston, Muni Rubens, Harry Theodore, Marie-Marcelle Deschamps, Serena P. Koenig & Jean William Pape. (2015) Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices and Beliefs about Medical Male Circumcision (MMC) among a Sample of Health Care Providers in Haiti. PLOS ONE 10:8, pages e0134667.
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Brian J. Morris & John N. Krieger. (2015) The Literature Supports Policies Promoting Neonatal Male Circumcision in North America. The Journal of Sexual Medicine 12:5, pages 1305-1305.
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Nieves Martín-Alguacil, R. Scott Cooper, Nathan Aardsma, Lazarus Mayoglou, Donald Pfaff & Justine Schober. (2015) Terminal innervation of the male genitalia, cutaneous sensory receptors of the male foreskin. Clinical Anatomy 28:3, pages 385-391.
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Brian J Morris, Aaron A R Tobian, Catherine A Hankins, Jeffrey D Klausner, Joya Banerjee, Stefan A Bailis, Stephen Moses & Thomas E Wiswell. (2014) Veracity and rhetoric in paediatric medicine: a critique of Svoboda and Van Howe's response to the AAP policy on infant male circumcision. Journal of Medical Ethics 40:7, pages 463-470.
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Brian J. Morris, Catherine A. Hankins, Aaron A. R. Tobian, John N. Krieger & Jeffrey D. Klausner. (2014) Does Male Circumcision Protect against Sexually Transmitted Infections? Arguments and Meta-Analyses to the Contrary Fail to Withstand Scrutiny. ISRN Urology 2014, pages 1-23.
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Brian J. Morris, Stefan A. Bailis & Thomas E. Wiswell. (2014) Circumcision Rates in the United States: Rising or Falling? What Effect Might the New Affirmative Pediatric Policy Statement Have?. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 89:5, pages 677-686.
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Brian J. Morris & Edward C. Green. 2014. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society 253 256 .
Chris F. Heyns, Shaun G. Smit, André van der Merwe & Amir D. Zarrabi. (2013) Urological aspects of HIV and AIDS. Nature Reviews Urology 10:12, pages 713-722.
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B. Lyons. (2013) Male Infant Circumcision as a 'HIV Vaccine'. Public Health Ethics 6:1, pages 90-103.
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Brian J. Morris. (2012) BOYLE AND HILL'S CIRCUMCISION ‘PHALLUSIES’. BJU International 110:3, pages E153-E154.
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