July 22, 2010 | PITTSBURG: Circumcision useless at preventing HIV in USA |
July 25, 2010 | VANCOUVER: Comedian pushes foreskin education |
July 22, 2010 | PITTSBURG: Circumcision useless at preventing HIV in USA |
July 22, 2010 | DURBAN: Botch - charges dropped |
July 22, 2010 | Time to halt the UNAIDS gravy train |
July 21, 2010 | SAN DIEGO: Foreskin Man comic launched |
July 18, 2010 | NEW YORK: $10.7M for partal amputation by Mogen clamp - Mogen closing |
July 17, 2010 | VIENNA: Circumcision "a dangerous mistake" |
July 14, 2010 | EASTERN CAPE: Deaths remind man how he lost his penis |
July 9, 2010 | GENEVA: World Bank AIDS chief hails circumcision, misunderstands month of abstinence |
July 9, 2010 | KWAZULU NATAL: Health Dept will go on using Tara KLamp |
July 9, 2010 | SOUTH AFRICA: Promoters refuse to withdraw Tara KLamp |
July 8, 2010 | NAMBIBIA: Illegal circumcision goes horribly wrong |
July 8, 2010 | SOUTH AFRICA: Call for withdrawal of Tara KLamp |
July 7, 2010 | JAKARTA: Women challenge male FGC edict |
July 6, 2010 | MELBOURNE: Chidren free to choose own religion - judge |
July 5, 2010 | EASTERN CAPE: Parents not told of son's death or burial |
July 2, 2010 | EASTERN CAPE: "Sacred" rite will continue despite deaths |
June 28, 2010 | EASTERN CAPE: Circumcision death toll rising |
June 27, 2010 | EASTERN CAPE: Cousins die on same day |
June 27, 2010 | SAN FRANCISCO: New slogan in Gay Pride parade |
June 16, 2010 | IRAQ: Human Rights Watch urges Kurdish FGC ban |
June 25, 2010 | ISRAEL: Boy loses 1/3 of blood |
June 24, 2010 | EASTERN CAPE: One more circumcision death |
June 24, 2010 | SWAZILAND: PM wants all MPs circumcised |
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June 24, 2010 | EASTERN CAPE: Two more circumcision deaths |
June 22, 2010 | SPARTA, MICH: Amateur circumcisor - more victims? |
June 21, 2010 | SOUTH AFRICA: 40% adverse effects with KLamp |
June 21, 2010 | EASTERN CAPE: Four more circumcision deaths + 2 by fire
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June 18, 2010 | EAST LONDON: Circumcision suspended: death toll 22 |
June 18, 2010 | EASTERN CAPE: Circumcision death toll 20 |
June 17, 2010 | SWAZILAND: Circumcised men preferred as blood donors! |
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June 17, 2010 | EASTERN CAPE: 13th death: intact father not allowed to rescue him |
June 17, 2010 | TRANSKEI: 35 rescued from illegal circumcision schools: "We can't listen to boys" |
June 16, 2010 | NEW YORK: "Nerve-sparing" clitoral reduction and testing provokes outrage |
June 16, 2010 | EASTERN CAPE: Nurses traumatised by circumcision cases [9 deaths] |
June 14, 2010 | EASTERN CAPE: Leaders meet over [7] circumcision deaths |
June 14, 2010 | EASTERN CAPE: First circumcision death |
June 13, 2010 | JERUSALEM: Brit method increases UTIs |
June 12, 2010 | EASTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA: Destitute 15 year old circumcises for money (2009 death toll: 91) |
June 12, 2010 | KWAZULU NATAL,SOUTH AFRICA: Target of 47,000 neonatal circumcisions |
June 10, 2010 | SPARTA, MICHIGAN: Probation for illegal circumcision |
June 9, 2010 | KUALA LUMPUR: 72% of HIV cases are Muslim |
June 9, 2010 | EASTERN CAPE: Three with gangrenous penises, nine amputations |
June 9, 2010 | BAHRAIN: Father who had daughter circumcised gets custody |
June 4, 2010 | TRANSKEI, SOUTH AFRICA: 14-year-old circumcised friends |
June 4, 2010 | KENYA: Circumcised men 11% less likely to report sex-injuries |
June 3, 2010 | FRESNO, CA: Jury considering tattooed-child case |
May 30, 2010 | ZIMBABWE: Donors shun circumcision programme |
Zimbabwe 2005-6 |
HIV Rates: |
Circumcised men | 20% |
Intact men | 19% |
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May 29, 2010 | LOS ANGELES: "Nick" runs counter to universal right to stewardship of one's body |
May 28, 2010 | SYDNEY: Ob/gyns do NOT consider "ritual nick" FGC |
May 27, 2010 | UTRECHT, HOLLAND: Doctors consider MGC ban |
May 26, 2010 | CHICAGO: AAP statement reversing its stand on FGC |
May 26, 2010 | : UK: Woman may be forced to have cancer operation |
May 26, 2010 | CHICAGO: AAP reverses its stand on FGC |
May 26, 2010 | TATARSTAN: Five-year-old boy dies after circumcision |
May 23, 2010 | EASTERN CAPE: 25 boys in hospital after circumcision |
May 16, 2010 | JOHANNESBURG: Teens held for illegal circumcisons: 2009 death toll 90 |
May 13, 2010 | LONDON: Two UK Medical Colleges condemn AAP's "ritual nick" FGC |
May 13, 2010 | WASHINGTON: Father brands children: defence counsel compares to circumcision |
May 7, 2010 | NEW YORK: Group Backs Ritual 'Nick' as Female Circumcision Option
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May 5, 2010 | ASWAN, EGYPT: FGC - a hard habit to break |
May 4, 2010 | UGANDA: Battle against FGC hits snag |
May 1, 2010 | DAKAR: African states push for UN ban on female circumcision |
May 1, 2010 | PROVENCE, FRANCE: Pioneer opponent of circumcisioin Alice Miller dies |
April 30, 2010 | LONDON: Genital autonomy charity condemns AAP position on FGC |
April 29, 2010 | SWEDEN: Doctors refuse to perform circumcisions |
April 28, 2010 | HOLLYWOOD: Actress circumcises "perfect" adopted son |
April 26, 2010 | WASHINGTON, DC: Bill to outlaw travel for FGC introduced |
April 26, 2010 | CHICAGO: New AAP reccomendations give girls less protection from FGC |
April 26, 2010 | U S A: Infant circumcision causes 100 deaths each year |
April 21, 2010 | LONDON: Leaving baby to cry could damage brain development |
April 15, 2010 | HELSINKI: Finnish circumcision law stalled |
April 13, 2010 | MALAWI: Circumcision "a hard sell" |
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April 12, 2010 | JOHANNESBURG: Men in a hurry not to get circumcised |
April 12, 2010 | KAMPALA: Uganda bans FGC |
April 12, 2010 | SYDNEY: Circumcision doubles Non-Specific Urethritis risk |
April 1, 2010 | CAPE TOWN: South African boys get better protection |
March 23, 2010 | HAMILTON, ONTARIO: Early Termination of Clinical Trials May Overestimate Treatment Effects |
March 4, 2010 | SPARTA: Mich: Accused quack circumciser a fetishist, ex-lover says |
March 26, 2010 | BURLINGTON, Vermont: Passer-by complains of trash outside Intactivist house |
March 26, 2010 | VANCOUVER: DIY-circumcising father gets 1 year |
March 25, 2010 | VANCOUVER: Sentencing of circumcision-botching father begins |
March 23, 2010 | NEW YORK: Celebrity Intactivists sought |
March 22, 2010 | KENYA: Public humiliation and forced circumcision |
March 19, 2010 | BOSTON: Bill to outlaw non-therapeutic circumcision of minors defeated |
March 18, 2010 | NEWCASTLE: Prison visitor hid drugs under his foreskin |
March 18, 2010 | DURBAN: Circumcision drive in a financial fix |
March 17, 2010 | DURBAN: 700M Rand [$US 95.8M] wanted for circumcision |
March 17, 2010 | GRAND RAPIDS, MICH: Sparta man accused of performing circumcisions offered plea deal |
March 13, 2010 | ZIMBABWE: 1.2m men targeted for circumcision |
March 12, 2010 | GEORGIA: Mother charged with FGC of baby |
March 9, 2010 | NEW YORK: Circumcision may not cut HIV spread among gay men |
March 9, 2010 | DURBAN: Tackling a taboo culture |
March 8, 2010 | CAIRO: FGC Still Widespread: report |
March 7, 2010 | SPARTA, MICHIGAN: Amateur charged over circumcision |
March 6, 2010 | EASTERN CAPE: Man circumcised by vengeful lovers |
March 3, 2010 | BOSTON: Massachusetts Senate Committee Hears Bill To Outlaw Infant Circumcision |
February 24, 2010 | USA: AIDS Epidemic in Some US Cities Worse Than Global Hot Spots |
February 24, 2010 | HELSINKI: Court orders parents to pay son for painful circumcision |
February 23, 2010 | JERUSALEM: Heroic repair of botched circumcision |
February 21, 2010 | SAN DIEGO: Anti-retrovirals could halt Aids spread in five years |
February 15, 2010 | NEW YORK: Judge rules that cutting penis is torture |
February 11, 2010 | LEEDS: Parents angry that son circumcised while in care |
February 6, 2010 | EVERETT, WA: Grandmother tries to stop man circumcising son |
February 6, 2010 | MELBOURNE: Female Genital Cutting happening in Australia |
February 2, 2010 | KENYA: 90,000 men circumcised |
February 1, 2010 | LOS ANGELES: National Coalition For Men urges AAP to consider boys' rights |
January 18, 2010 | MAURITANIA: Fatwa against FGC |
January 29, 2010 | FRESNO, CA: Father who tattooed son faces aggravated mayhem charge again |
January 29, 2010 | SOUTH AFRICA: 15% believe circumcised men don't need to use condoms |
January 27, 2010 | BRISBANE: Man took photos in circumcision dispute |
January 26, 2010 | MALAWI: Shaba says Malawi cannot follow Rwanda on circumcision to fight Aids |
January 20, 2010 | SAN FRANCISCO: Urologists form Circumcision Task Force |
January 17, 2010 | SOUTH AFRICA: Circumcision will lift flagging sprirt sales |
January 17, 2010 | ZAMBIA: Botched circumcision leaves man in pain |
January 17, 2010 | ZULULAND: Thousands face agony and/or death after king's circumcision decree |
January 16, 2010 | WYOMING: Alleged killer, filet-knife circumciser, pleads mental deficiency |
January 14, 2010 | SOUTH AFRICA: "More initiates will die" |
January 12, 2010 | SAN DIEGO: Bill to outlaw circumcision submitted |
January 12, 2010 | ADELAIDE: Circumcision has no benefit: study |
January 11, 2010 | TENNANT CREEK (NT) AUSTRALIA: Three youths severely lacerated in botched traditional circumcision |
January 10, 2010 | DARWIN: Three aboriginal boys mutilated |
January 5, 2010 | GEORGIA: Parents charged for tattooing 6 children |
Eastern Cape Deaths
from Circumcision, 2009:
80 |
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December 23, 2009 | WESTERN CAPE: Police investigate first circumcision death |
December 25, 2009 | ZULULAND: Reintroduced circumcision is colonial |
December 22, 2009 | KENYA: Circumcised youths have unsafe sex |
December 22, 2009 | KENYA: Daughter circumcised; father suicides |
December 16, 2009 | EASTERN CAPE: Boys dying to become men |
December 14, 2009 | EASTERN CAPE: Four more deaths - season total now 21 |
December 14, 2009 | EASTERN CAPE: Two more deaths - season total now 17 |
December 11, 2009 | EASTERN CAPE: Two more deaths - 17-year-old circumcises 18-year-olds |
December 11, 2009 | UGANDA: MPs vote to outlaw FGC |
December 10, 2009 | VANCOUVER: Proscuters want 2 years for botching father |
December 8, 2009 | EASTERN CAPE: 9 circumcision-related deaths this week - law change called for |
December 8, 2009 | EASTERN CAPE: 2 more deaths |
December 8, 2009 | CHRISTCHURCH, NZ: 4-year-old held down "like a wild animal" to be circumcised |
December 7, 2009 | KENYA: Pregnant girls circumcised |
December 6, 2009 | EASTERN CAPE: 18 youths rescued from circumcision schools |
December 8, 2009 | LONDON: Doctor who hospitalised 5 boys did not meet standards |
December 6, 2009 | JOHANNESBURG: King of Zulus follows lemmings |
November 30, 2009 | KENYA: Bizarre beliefs about the effect of circumcision |
December 4, 2009 | KUALA LUMPUR: Political party woos voters with circumcisionn |
December 3, 2009 | JOHANNESBURG: Men seek circumcision for unprotected sex |
December 2, 2009 | WYOMING: Man charged with smothering one son had circumcised another with a filet knife |
December 1, 2009 | EASTERN CAPE: Department flooded with circumcision complaints |
November 30, 2009 | EASTERN CAPE: Man held after illegal circumcision |
November 27, 2009 | PHILADELPHIA: Circumcision led to removal of half of brain |
November 27, 2009 | LONDON: Circumcising boys for religious reasons "could breach Human Rights Act" |
November 20, 2009 | ESSEX: 5 boys hospitalised - circumcisions "not botched" |
November 18, 2009 | EASTERN CAPE: Another circumcision death |
November 17, 2009 | LONDON: Ritual circumcision "illegal" |
November 15, 2009 | OMAHA: Researchers use foreskin tissue in stemcell research "to avoid ethical issues" |
November 12, 2009 | EASTERN CAPE: Initiate's death blamed on "dehydration" |
November 9, 2009 | ONLINE: Less biased discussion of circumcision |
November 9, 2009 | JERUSALEM: Mohel botches bris - gets community service |
November 7, 2009 | LOS ANGELES: Three cities race vets to outlaw cat declawing |
October 26, 2009 | ESSEX: Circumcisions 'left boys in agony' |
October 19, 2009 | WASHINGTON, D C: Intact America's open letter to the AAP |
October 18, 2009 | FRESNO, CA: DA re-files mayhem charge against men who tattooed boy |
October 14, 2009 | JOHANNESBERG: Court decision welcomed |
October 14, 2009 | VANCOUVER: Father circumcises son using horse-coagulant |
October 14, 2009 | BHISHO, SOUTH AFRICA: Non-consensual circumcision ruled unconsitutional |
October 14, 2009 | UGANDA: Bigger foreskin "greater HIV risk" |
October 13, 2009 | WASHINGTON, DC: Intactivists to picket AAP Conference |
October 12, 2009 | SACRAMENTO: Cow tail docking outlawed |
October 7, 2009 | BHISHO, SOUTH AFRICA: Elder sorry for forced circumcision; father not |
October 3, 2009 | FRESNO, CA: Tattooing 7-year-old not mayhem, could be "cruel and inhumane" |
October 2, 2009 | NORTH CAROLINA: Father gets 150 days for DIY circumcision |
October 2, 2009 | BROOKLYN: Baby dies after circumcision |
October 1, 2009 | FRESNO, CA: Judge considers life for tattooing 7-year-old |
September 2009 | VANCOUVER: BC Physicans recommend against circumcision |
September 30, 2009 | NORTH CAROLINA: "God said circumcise my sons with box cutter" - polygamist |
September 30, 2009 | EASTERN CAPE: Initiate's body found |
September 29, 2009 | NORTH CAROLINA: Polygamist circumcises sons with boxcutters |
September 28, 2009 | ATLANTA: Neonatal pain alters adult reactions |
September 28, 2009 | PORT ELIZABETH (SOUTH AFRICA): DIY circumcisions go wrong |
September 26, 2009 | KENYA: HIV rising faster where men are circumcised |
September 24, 2009 | BANGKOK: Vaccine reduces HIV |
September 18, 2009 | SOUTH DAKOTA: Boy dies, parents sue government |
September 14, 2009 | ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian women abandon FGC |
September 11, 2009 | SYDNEY: RACP replies - Morris pwned! |
September 9, 2009 | NEW YORK: Israeli-trained circumcisers to cut America? |
September 11, 2009 | SYDNEY: Physicians discourage circumcision, Morris - surprise! - demurs |
September 9, 2009 | LONDON: Verdict; baby died of 'natural causes' after circumcision |
September 8, 2009 | LONDON: More than two boys a week nearly die of circumcision |
September 8, 2009 | LONDON: Baby did not die "immediately" after circumcision |
September 7, 2009 | LONDON: "Highly likely" baby died within minutes of circumcision, inquest told |
September 5, 2009 | NEW YORK: Women's health leader queries circumcision |
September 3, 2009 | VENICE: "Desert Flower" FGC film screens |
September 3, 2009 | LONDON: Circumcision-death inquest to begin |
September 3, 2009 | CHICAGO: HIV vaccine hope |
August 29, 2009 | JOHANNESBERG: Elders vow to "get rid of" circumcison opponents |
August 27, 2009 | SYDNEY: Australian physicians move one small step towards completely voluntary circumcison |
August 27, 2009 | ATLANTA: Circumcision will be 'completely voluntary' - CDC (Hooray!) |
August 26, 2009 | BLOG: Parenting author speaks out |
August 25, 2009 | BLOG: Circumcision hasn't protected blacks |
August 24, 2009 | ATLANTA: Circumcision doesn't protect Men who have Sex with Men (Surprise!) |
August 24, 2009 | ATLANTA: Universal US circumcision proposed |
August 18, 2009 | HOUSTON: 99 years for mutilating mother |
August 18, 2009 | KAMPALA: Circumcision "hysteria" |
August 17, 2009 | BIRMINGHAM: Doctor rapped for circumcision without proper consent |
August 5, 2009 | STOCKHOLM: Omskärelse inte riskfritt - läkarna / Circumcision not risk-free - doctors |
August 15, 2009 | HOUSTON: Mother who wanted circumcision convicted for castration |
August 15, 2009 | EASTERN CAPE: Officials traumatised by circumcisions botched by 14-year-olds |
August 15, 2009 | CAIRO: First arrest for FGC |
August 12, 2009 | BERKELEY: $429,000 for loss of glans |
August 10, 2009 | HOUSTON: Mother wanted circumcision, boy castrated |
August 10, 2009 | MALAWI: Teenager dies |
August 10, 2009 | UGANDA: Doctors want compulsory circumcision of soldiers |
August 8, 2009 | SOUTH AFRICA: Son takes parents to court |
August 5, 2009 | INDIA: Three sons forcibly circumcised |
August 5, 2009 | MALAWI: Pastor forcibly circumcised |
August 4, 2009 | OREGON: Dogs' ears to be protected |
August 3, 2009 | SOUTH AFRICA: Two on the run after fatal circumcision |
August 2, 2009 | SOUTH AFRICA: Risk to women gives pause |
August 1, 2009 | KENYA: Circumcision does not prevent 3 common STIs |
July 30, 2009 | OREGON: Judge's ruling in the case of "Mischa" |
July 29, 2009 | EASTERN CAPE: Boy sent back to finish near-fatal initiation |
July 28, 2009 | SUDAN: Women's secret anti-FGC signal in henna |
July 25, 2009 | STOCKHOLM: 2/3 of doctors say circumcision is "assault" |
July 25, 2009 | SOUTH AFRICA: Circumcision was not part of dead initiate's custom |
July 23, 2009 | VANCOUVER: Circumcision less effective than condoms, ART |
July 21, 2009 | SOUTH AFRICA: Homosexual activitty underreported |
July 17, 2009 | EASTERN CAPE: More deaths |
July 16, 2009 | UGANDA: Women at up to 50% more HIV risk from circumcised men |
July 14, 2009 | SOUTH AFRICA: Community must act - death toll 43 |
July 14, 2009 | ZIMBABWE: Boys forcibly circumcised in South Africa |
July 12, 2009 | SEATTLE: Vets keep dogs' ears safer than baby foreskins |
July 9, 2009 | CAPE TOWN: Promoting circumcision a mistake |
July 10, 2009 | UGANDA: Mandatory neonatal circumcision planned |
July 10, 2009 | CAIRO: Support for FGC falling |
July 9, 2009 | PRETORIA: E Cape circumcision toll tops 40
[and 140 in hospital] |
July 7, 2009 | JOHANNESBURG: E Cape circumcision death toll rises |
July 6, 2009 | JOHANNESBURG: Circumcision death toll now 36
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July 5, 2009 | JOHANNESBURG: 33 die from circumcision
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July 4, 2009 | JOHANNESBURG: 31 die from circumcision
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July 2, 2009 | UGANDA: Museveni condemns FGC
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July 1, 2009 | EASTERN CAPE: Circumcision death toll now 24
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July 1, 2009 | EASTERN CAPE: Under-age boy dies from circumcision
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July 12, 2009 | SEATTLE: Vets keep dogs' ears safer than baby foreskins |
July 9, 2009 | CAPE TOWN: Promoting circumcision a mistake |
July 10, 2009 | UGANDA: Mandatory neonatal circumcision planned |
July 10, 2009 | CAIRO: Support for FGC falling |
July 9, 2009 | PRETORIA: E Cape circumcision toll tops 40
[and 140 in hospital] |
July 7, 2009 | JOHANNESBURG: E Cape circumcision death toll rises |
July 6, 2009 | JOHANNESBURG: Circumcision death toll now 36
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July 5, 2009 | JOHANNESBURG: 33 die from circumcision
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July 4, 2009 | JOHANNESBURG: 31 die from circumcision
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July 2, 2009 | UGANDA: Museveni condemns FGC
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July 1, 2009 | EASTERN CAPE: Circumcision death toll now 24
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July 1, 2009 | EASTERN CAPE: Under-age boy dies from circumcision
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June 30, 2009 | HERTS*, U K: Man circumcises himself with nail-clippers
*Where else? |
June 24, 2009 | BOTSWANA: Men reject circumcision
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June 28, 2009 | JOHANNESBERG: Culture a lame excuse for outdated initiation
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June 25, 2009 | EASTERN CAPE: Circumcision death toll rises to 12
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June 22, 2009 | NEW YORK: Anti-FGC campaigner spreads her net to change US mindset
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June 22, 2009 | UGANDA: Anti-FGM bill to be tabled in parliament
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June 19, 2009 | TRANSKEI: Boy in hospital with rotting penis
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June 18, 2009 | ZAMBIA: Police to circumcise all male recruits
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June 18, 2009 | TRANSKEI: Winter circumcision death toll now three
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June 14, 2009 | JOHANNESBURG: Another circumcision death
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June 11, 2009 | ZIMBABWE: Circumcision clinics open
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| Zimbabwe |
HIV Rates: |
Circumcised men aged 20-49 | 20% |
Intact men aged 20-49 | 19% |
Source: www.measuredhs.com |
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June 10, 2009 | SWAZILAND, ZAMBIA: Circumcision begins
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| Swaziland |
HIV Rates: |
Circumcised men | 21.8% |
Intact men | 19.5% |
Source: www.measuredhs.com
Figures for Zambia not available. |
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June 8, 2009 | CAMEROON: "Circumcision is a red herring"
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June 7, 2009 | MELBOURNE: College of Physicians tipped to stand by its policy against circumcision
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June 2, 2009 | TASMANIA: Law on circumcision "unclear"
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June 2, 2009 | TASMANIA: Law reform institute calls for submissions
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May 27, 2009 | ALBERTA: How to make boys hate music
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May 28, 2009 | SOUTH AFRICA: Eight youths die from one circumcision school
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May 24, 2009 | SYDNEY: Arch-circumcisionist Morris calls for compulsory circumcision
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May 27, 2009 | ZIMBABWE: One razor used to circumcise 15 boys
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May 12, 2009 | NORTH CAROLINA: Bigamist who circumcised sons to be charged (but what with?)
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May 7, 2009 | BOTSWANA: Mass circumcision plan - 77 doctor-years to be wasted
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April 24, 2009 | NAIROBI, KENYA: Man forcibly circumcised: betrayed after years of blackmail
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April 22, 2009 | FRESNO, CA: Father who tattooed son, 7, faces six charges
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April 23, 2009 | SASKATOON: No more circumcisions at main childbirth hospital
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April 22, 2009 | OREGON: Court rules 14-year-old need not be circumcised
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April 19, 2009 | UGANDA: Circumcision should not replace more effective HIV prevention
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April 19, 2009 | STOCKHOLM: Boys injured more than usual by delisted circumcisor
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April 15, 2009 | CHICAGO: Another botched circumcision
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April 13, 2009 | CHICAGO: Medical research subject to bias
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April 12, 2009 | JERUSALEM: Browbeaten to be circumcised again - at 87
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April 11, 2009 | BOSTON: Circumcised boys get MRSA
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April 11, 2009 | PAKISTAN: Muslim men not circumcised
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April 8, 2009 | DETROIT: Parents saying no to circumcision
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April 8, 2009 | NIGER: Ten villages reject Female Genital Cutting
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March 31, 2009 | WASHINGTON, DC: Hunger strikers at Genital Integrity rally
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March 27, 2009 | ATLANTA: $2,300,000 verdict for botched circumcision
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March 26, 2009 | UGANDA: Recycled HIV study generates HSV-, HPV-circumcision propaganda
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March 13, 2009 | KENYA: Church offers girls FGC substitute
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March 16, 2009 | LONDON: Thousands of girls mutilated in Britain
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March 5, 2009 | CANADA: Topical anaesthetic EMLA linked to serious side effects
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March 14, 2009 | SYDNEY: Infant circumcision not justified in Australia
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March 12, 2009 | SOUTH AFRICA: Youth loses leg, toes after botched circumcision |
March 3, 2009 | UGANDA: Health Ministry sceptical of circumcision-HIV connection |
March 2, 2009 | NEW YORK: New Web Site Promotes Myths About Circumcision and HIV |
February 26, 2009 | INDIANA: Circumcision denounced |
February 13, 2009 | WASHINGTON DC: African women defend FGC by comparison with MGC |
February , 2009 | KENYA: "Being circumcised means never having to wear a condom" |
February 13, 2009 | WINDSOR, UK: Baby bleeds to death after circumcision |
February 12, 2009 | RWANDA: "Invisible condom" myth thrives |
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February 11, 2009 | SIERRA LEONE: Women degraded for questioning FGC |
February 8, 2009 | KHARTOUM: Sudanese government backs down from full FGC ban |
February 4, 2009 | SAN FRANCISCO: Doctors want baby to keep all 24 digits |
January 30, 2009 | ARIZONA: Circumcision does not affect HPV acquistion |
January 27, 2009 | KENYA: Female genital cutting "prevents HIV" |
January 23, 2009 | THAILAND: Nurse let off after mistaken circumcision |
January 23, 2009 | SOUTH AFRICA: Man dies in fight over 'real' circumcision |
January 22, 2009 | KENTUCKY: Penis-removal during circumcision - out of court settlement |
December 19 2008 | MALAYSIA: Pictures [disturbing] of boy about to be forcibly circumcised |
January 12 2009 | BENIN: Another death from circumstition |
January 6 2009 | KENYA: Another forced circumcision |
December 29 2008 | GERMANY: The debate simmers |
December 24 2008 | SOUTH AFRICA: More deaths - parents refusing medical care |
December 25 2008 | LOUISIANA: Man kills himself after botched circumcision |
December 21 2008 | BALTIMORE: Circumcision fails to protect vast majority of black men |
December 21 2008 | UGANDA: Columnist scoffs at circumcision |
December 20 2008 | NIGERIA: Circumcision ban considered |
December 19 2008 | ISRAEL: Secular Jews not circumcising |
December 18 2008 | KENYA: Circumcision fails to convince |
December 18 2008 | PENNSYLVANIA: Pierced kittens rescued - "unbelievable" |
December 5 2008 | HELSINKI: Tighter regulation advocated
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December 5 2008 | CAPE TOWN: Two more circumcision deaths |
December 5 2008 | KENYA: Girls flee from genital cutting |
December 5 2008 | ISRAEL: Ritual circumcision causes urinary tract infections |
November 24 2008 | HUDSON, NY: New Intactivist organisation formed |
December 1 2008 | ZAMBIA: Youth believes hype, circumcises himself |
November 28 2008 | PHILADELPHIA: Gentiles hire mohel for "holistic" circumcision (but it's genital cutting all the same) |
November 27 2008 | SOWETO: Forums to promote circumcision making selective use of science |
November 26 2008 | BALTIMORE: "Pain is okay" - mohel |
November 26 2008 | LONDON: Mass HIV testing and treatment "a human rights issue" |
November 24 2008 | KENYA: Women to be persuaded to promote circumcision of husbands |
October 31 2008 | GERMANY: Circumcision "could be an offence of criminal injury" / Beschneidung: Strafbare Körperverletzung? |
November 22 2008 | IRAQ: Kurdish areas to ban FGC |
November 17 2008 | DENMARK: Male circumcision "objectionable and ethically indefensible" / Flere kræver omskæring af drengebørn forbudt |
November 8 2008 | SOUTH AFRICA: Xhosa activist slams tribal circumcision |
November 8 2008 | PRAGUE: Foreplay is overrated, researchers claim
[or rather: Intactness prolongs intercourse]
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November 8 2008 | LOS ANGELES: Comedian suggests banning circumcision instead of gay marriage |
November 6 2008 | EASTERN CAPE: Special wards for botched circumcision victims |
Eastern Cape Deaths
from Circumcision, 2008:
24 |
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October 2008 | SOUTH AFRICA: South African Medical Journal slams circumcision campaigns |
October 29 2008 | UGANDA: Circumcision-HIV link to be studied |
October 27 2008 | KENYA: "I wanted FGC - till I saw it being done" |
October 22 2008 | SOUTH AFRICA: Doctor tells of many botched circumcisions |
October 21 2008 | FINLAND: Circumcision of 4-year-old "not criminal"
One-third of Finnish doctors think it should be |
October 15 2008 | JOHANNESBURG: Traditional ritual questioned |
October 15 2008 | UGANDA: District outlaws FGC |
October 15 2008 | UGANDA: Policy makers not told of circumcision trials |
October 15 2008 | KENYA: Bands of youths forcibly circumcising |
October 12 2008 | OUAGADOUGOU (Burkina Faso): West African First Ladies to join fight against FGC |
October 12 2008 | KENYA: Luo elder: "arm twisted" to promote circumcision, claims featherbedding |
October 7 2008 | CAPE TOWN: No circumcision-HIV link in survey of 3000 men |
October 7 2008 | JERUSALEM: One third of former-soviet immigrants choose to stay intact |
October 7 2008 | WASHINGTON: Circumcision doesn't protect men who have sex with men |
October 6, 2008 | WASHINGTON: Supreme Court declines to stop Oregon court from asking boy what he wants |
October 2008 | ISRAEL: Circumcision causes Urinary Tract Infections |
October 2008 | HOBART: Tasmanian Law Institue to review circumcision's legality |
September 29, 2008 | KENYA: Rethink Male Cut Campaign in the War Against Aids |
September 26, 2008 | KENYA: Hospitals ill-equipped to cope with circumcision |
September 24, 2008 | KENYA: Circumcision drive "could be disastrous" |
September 22, 2008 | KENYA: 66 y.o. celibate gets circumcised "to prevent HIV" |
September 21, 2008 | EGYPT: Female cuting common in Egypt despite ban |
September 2008 | IRELAND: Doctors divided on cultural circumcision |
September 25, 2008 | KENTUCKY: Not just a snip - doctor took the lot |
September 22, 2008 | ONLINE: workshops on the foreskin and circumcision |
September 13, 2008 | JOHANNESBURG: ANC exec forcibly circumcised |
September 13, 2008 | JOHANNESBURG: Editors "trained" to support circumcision |
September 5, 2008 | ENGLAND: Health trusts break NHS guidelines to ritually circumcise |
September 5, 2008 | LONDON: More on the shocking complication rate |
September 5, 2008 | TASMANIA: Circumcision ban an option for Physicians' review |
September 4, 2008 | KEELE, UK: Religious circumcision should wait for consent |
September 3, 2008 | KENYA: More men circumcised by force |
September 3, 2008 | LONDON: Male and female cutting jointly condemned |
September 1, 2008 | GENEVA: "Shocking" rate of circumcision complications |
August 2008 | COPENHAGEN: Circumcision caveats |
August 20, 2008 | NAMIBIA: Circumcision "not yet" |
August 18, 2008 | MEXICO CITY: Women challenge value of circumcision:
"like a cheap condom that breaks 40% of the time" |
August 15, 2008 | NAIROBI: Kenyans not all buying circumcision hype |
August 14, 2008 | LONDON: Intact gay men no more likely to have HIV |
August 13, 2008 | SYDNEY: Adult-circumcised gay men more likely to be receptive |
August 13, 2008 | UGANDA: "Circumcised men can't get AIDS" |
August 7, 2008 | TANZANIA: Do Not Cloud Message |
August 5, 2008 | MEXICO: AIDS 2008 Officials Ignore Opposing Views on Circumcision and HIV |
August 5, 2008 | PHILIPPINES: Boy dies of tetanus |
August 4, 2008 | MEXICO: Condoms much more cost-effective than circumcision |
August 3, 2008 | MEXICO: Circumcision a dangerous distraction in HIV battle |
August 2, 2008 | KENYA: Another circumcision injury |
July 31, 2008 | LONDON: No FGC prosecutions yet |
July 31, 2008 | SWAZILAND: Circumcision used as excuse not to use condoms |
July 31, 2008 | FINLAND: government considers legalising male circumcision |
July 22, 2008 | BARI, ITALY: Baby dies after home circumcision |
July 19, 2008 | CAPE TOWN: Circumcision causes mental illness |
July 18, 2008 | EASTERN CAPE: Another victim
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July 18, 2008 | KENYA: Luo elders reject circumcision plan
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July 14, 2008 | EAST LONDON: Initiation schools banned
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July 11, 2008 | SOUTH AFRICA: Youths beaten for not being circumcised
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July 11, 2008 | JOHANNESBURG: 53 initiates rushed to hospital
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July 8, 2008 | JOHANNESBURG: Circumcision death toll rises |
July 5, 2008 | AFRICA: A risky social experiment? |
July 4, 2008 | YEMEN: Women favour female genital cutting |
July 4, 2008 | JOHANNESBURG: Dangers of circumcision |
July 3, 2008 | RWANDA: military to "volunteer" for circumcision |
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July 3, 2008 | CAPE TOWN: E Cape circumcision toll rises |
July 2, 2008 | SOUTH AFRICA: Another boy dies from circumcision |
July 2, 2008 | PAKISTAN: Baby dies from blood loss |
July 2, 2008 | UGANDA: Even death is no escape |
June 30, 2008 | UGANDA: MPs want FGC ban |
July 2, 2008 | MOSCOW: Boy dies |
July 1, 2008 | SOUTH AFRICA: Death toll now 14 |
July 1, 2008 | SOUTH AFRICA: Boy Dies from circumcision by his brother |
June 28, 2008 | NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO, CHICAGO: Intactivism in Pride parades
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June 28, 2008 | SOUTH AFRICA: Ten boys die from circumcision |
June 27, 2008 | KAMPALA: Forcible circumcision condemned |
June 26, 2008 | SWITZERLAND: Parents convicted of circumcising daughter |
June 26, 2008 | LONDON: Why is circumcision so common? |
June 25, 2008 | KAMPALA: Elderly man forcibly circumcised |
June 24, 2008 | JOHANNESBURG: Father abducted for circumcision |
June 25, 2008 | KAMPALA: Elderly man forcibly circumcised |
June 24, 2008 | JOHANNESBURG: Father abducted for circumcision |
June 19, 2008 | KENYA: Circumcision campaign begins |
June 17, 2008 | SOUTH AFRICA: Girl, 5, circumcises boy, 5 |
June 17, 2008 | Côte St. Luc, CANADA: Rabbi speeding to bleeding baby, gets off |
June 14, 2008 | HAMBURG: Doctor in court over painful circumcision |
June 11, 2008 | SWITZERLAND: Sentence for circumcision of sister in Somalia |
June 15, 2008 | ENFIELD, UK: Doctor who botched circumcision suspended |
June 14, 2008 | NEW DELHI: New device |
June 14, 2008 | SOUTH AFRICA: Police seek "bogus" surgeon after youth's death |
June 11, 2008 | NEW YORK: Intact men no more likely to have genital herpes |
June 11, 2008 | ENFIELD, UK: Circumcision botched - "no glans" |
June 9, 2008 | CAIRO: New Egyptian FGC law criticised |
June 9, 2008 | FLORIDA: Urologists debate circumcision: "risky" "little medical indication" |
June 7, 2008 | CAIRO: Egypt passes law againt FGC |
June 7, 2008 | OSLO: Gambian man charged with FGC of five daughters |
June 4, 2008 | MELBOURNE: Oestrogen on the foreskin prevents HIV (2003: Lemon juice in the vagina prevents HIV / 2000: the foreskin attracts HIV) |
June 2, 2008 | KENYA: Circumcising HIV+ men to protect them from contracting HIV is madness safe |
May 31, 2008 | SEATTLE: Genital Integrity policy announced |
May 29, 2008 | PHILIPPINES: Doctors question circumcision |
May 27, 2008 | AMSTERDAM: Doctor suggests token Female Genital Cut |
May 25, 2008 | KAMPALA: Museveni refuses to ride the circumcision juggernaut |
May 22, 2008 | CAPE TOWN: Young Communists call for circumcision; others urge caution |
May 19, 2008 | WITWATERSRAND: Circumcision programes "put into question" |
May 7, 2008 | NETHERLANDS: Circumcising father "not guilty" |
May, 2008 | MIDWEST: Doctor too keen to circumcise: $1,052,000 |
May 6, 2008 | INDIANA: Circumcision is not a vaccine |
May 5, 2008 | FLORIDA: Flacks wax ecstatic: jock docks dicks |
May 5, 2008 | SWAZILAND: Billboards promise circumcised "pride", "benefits" |
April 30, 2008 | UGANDA: Muslims offer to circumcise infidels |
April 28, 2008 | CAPE TOWN: TV Head censors circumcision documentary |
April 20, 2008 | PHILIPPINES: Doctor claims circumcision record |
April 16, 2008 | YEMEN: Parliament upholds female circumcision |
April 10, 2008 | KENYA: Role of anal sex in HIV underestimated |
April 10, 2008 | KENYA: Circumcision becomes offical policy |
April 8, 2008 | SRI LANKA: Circumcised men at more risk of genital warts |
April 2, 2008 | Manila: Man circumcised on Big Brother; another refuses |
March26, 2008 | UGANDA: Gov't Drafts Policy On Male Circumcision |
March 19, 2008 | (Belated reportage) NEW ZEALAND: Circumcision doesn't prevent STDs |
March 7, 2008 | GHANA: AIDS conference recommends circumcision
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March 4, 2008 | NEW YORK: Margaret Sanger's grandson is skeptical |
March 1, 2008 | PARIS: Death of anti-FGC activist probably accidental |
March, 2008 | DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND: Circumcision does not protect against Sexually Transmitted Diseases |
February 28, 2008 | UNITED NATIONS: Push to end (female) circumcision |
February 27, 2008 | PHILIPPINES: US troops on medical mission circumcise men instead |
February 22, 2008 | UGANDA: Death penalty if (female) circumcision fatal |
February 22, 2008 | USA: FDA warns firm over safety pins for circumcision |
February 21, 2008 | AFRICA: Doubts and dissent over circumcision |
February 22, 2008 | OXFORD: NHS "should pay for adult circumcision of African men" |
February 18, 2008 | GLASGOW: Girls risk rendition home for circumcision |
February 13, 2008 | RWANDA: Men seek circumcision so they can abandon condoms |
February 10, 2008 | SOUTH AFRICA: Many men "not circumcised enough" |
February 8, 2008 | FGM: Slow progress in three countries |
February 8, 2008 | BRISBANE: Australian and New Zealand physicians won't soften their stand against infant circumcision |
February 7, 2008 | SOUTH AFRICA: Health Minister doubt's utility of circumcision against HIV |
February 6, 2008 | MINNEAPOLIS: Court: Mom Can't Sue Over Circumcision |
February 6, 2008 | BOSTON: Vaccine knocks out foreskin's immune response |
February 6, 2008 | LOS ANGELES: Christina Aguilera celebrates circumcision with penis balloons |
February 6, 2008 | NORTH CAROLINA: Bigamous father of 12 circumcised his own sons |
February 3, 2008 | UGANDA: Circumcising men may increase HIV risk to women |
January 31, 2008 | SYDNEY: Circumcision advocate accepted uncritically |
January 31, 2008 | VICTORIA, B.C.: More parents choosing to skip circumcision |
January 30, 2008 | SWITZERLAND: HIV+ men on retrovirals not infectious - CDC hurries to pooh-pooh |
January 30, 2008 | KENYA: Forced circumcision a weapon of tribal warfare |
December 13, 2007 | AMSTERDAM: Imams condemn female cutting |
January 25, 2008 | OREGON: Court rules 12-year-old may not be circumcised - in the meantime |
January 23, 2008 | SOUTH AFRICA: Young man takes father, tribal elders to court over forced circumcision |
January 22, 2008 | RWANDA: Govt launches mass circumcision campaign despite evidence of futility:
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January 20, 2008 | INDONESIA: Female Genital Cutting medicalised |
January 19, 2008 | USA: Fewer than 1 in 3 boys circumcised in the West |
January 15, 2008 | NAIROBI: Men "circumcised to death" |
January 13, 2008 | CAPE TOWN: One independent doctor welcomes sexuality finding, others critique it |
January 9, 2008 | SAN DIEGO: Call for circumcision to be adults-only |
January 8, 2008 | TORONTO: Whats wrong with research on circumcision and sexuality? |
January 8, 2008 | KENYA: More forcible circumcisions |
January 7, 2008 | EAST AFRICA: More qualms about circumcision to prevent HIV |
January 6, 2008 | UGANDA: Study fails to detect sexual dysfunction |
January 5, 2008 | KENYA: Does intactness prevent herpes? |
January 4, 2008 | IRAQ: Moves to outlaw FGC in the Middle East |
January 3, 2008 | FIJI: Doctor botches 18 circumcisions |
January 1, 2008 | KENYA: 20 men forcibly circumcised - five die |
December 31, 2007 | SUDAN: Female genital cutting outlawed |
December 26, 2007 | NEW YORK: Mohels cut gentile babies |
December 21, 2007 | TEXAS: MRSA kills more than AIDS |
December 18, 2007 | UGANDA: Ebola cancels traditional circumcision |
December 16, 2007 | AFRICA: Gates donations put healthcare at risk |
December 16, 2007 | CAIRO: Islamic scholar opposes female circumcision ban |
December 15, 2007 | US: No correlation between HIV and circumcision in Latino, Black Men who have Sex with Men paper news |
December 14, 2007 | KENYA: Boy dies / girls' defenders stoned |
December 9, 2007 | HOBART: Doctors back call for circumcision ban |
December 7, 2007 | UGANDA: Campaign to circumcise without testing |
December 4, 2007 | CAPE TOWN: Circumcised again - by force |
December 3, 2007 | LUSAKA: Reporter has himself circumcised |
November 29, 2007 | BEIJING: Health Minister cautious about mass circumcision |
November 22, 2007 | SPAIN: Baby bleeds to death after botched circumcision |
November 20, 2007 | KYOTO/WISCONSIN: Skin cells made as versatile as embryo cells |
November 19, 2007 | INDIA: Circumcision death - doctors blame family! |
November 19, 2007 | U N: Extent of AIDS epidemic overstated |
November 18, 2007 | NEW YORK: An urgent appeal to help protect Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
November 4, 2007 | LONDON: Cutting comments: the foreskin debate |
November 12, 2007 | ADELAIDE: "Cosmetic" circumcision banned in South Australian hospitals |
November 12, 2007 | UGANDA: Circumcision may not help |
November 8, 2007 | UGANDA: President Cautions Youth On Circumcision |
November 7, 2007 | OREGON: Court Mulls Circumcision Case î |
November 5, 2007 | UGANDA: ABC, not circumcision, gives best defence against HIV |
November 1, 2007 | UGANDA: Don't Impose Circumcision On Natives! |
October 30, 2007 | BRISBANE: Queensland Gov't considers teen surgery ban |
October 29, 2007 | SOUTH AFRICA: Grassroots resistance to mass cutting |
October 23, 2007 | RWANDA: Homosexual transmission of HIV underreported (confounding circumcision studies) |
October 22, 2007 | SWAZILAND: Israeli doctors circumcising |
October 19, 2007 | UGANDA: Stick to the ABC Strategy |
October 16, 2007 | CHICAGO: Staph Infections Deadlier Than AIDS? |
October 12, 2007 | HONG KONG: Aids expert sceptical about benefits of male circumcision |
October 10, 2007 | SYDNEY: Circumcision offers gay men no protection from HIV |
October 7, 2007 | ESSEX: Mother wants disabled daugher hysterectomised |
October 4, 2007 | CHICAGO: Doctors don't feel (your) pain |
October 5, 2007 | TURKEY / KENYA: "First Joy" / "A White Wedding" |
October 5, 2007 | PERTH: Elder cuts penis in tribal ceremony |
October 3, 2007 | NEW YORK: Jewish Intactivists stop circumcising |
September 16, 2007 | FRANKFURT: Court finds circumcision an unlawful personal injury |
September 16, 2007 | ZAMBIA: Understaffed clinics offer circumcision with inadequate counselling |
September 12, 2007 | OREGON: Jewish group weighs in against child's freedom from circumcision î |
September 12, 2007 | HELSINKI: Muslim party wants sharia law, circumcision, animal sacrifice |
September 11, 2007 | PRETORIA: Trial results "unfolding" not "overwhelming" |
September 6, 2007 | KENYA: Flaws in HIV studies noted |
September 5, 2007 | PORT MORESBY: Doctors differ over circumcision |
August 31, 2007 | CHICAGO: Women urged to shun trendy genital surgery |
August 26, 2007 | PARIS: Voices of sanity emerge |
August 20, 2007 | TRINIDAD: "Repeated study visits and intensive behavioural counselling" of circumcised men in trials |
August 20, 2007 | JOHANNESBURG: US Anti-AIDS Program To Fund Circumcision in Africa |
August 13, 2007 | HOBART: Tasmania's Children's Commissioner wants circumcision ban |
August 13, 2007 | ADELAIDE: Circumcision review |
August 12, 2007 | MELBOURNE: Circumcision banned in public hospitals - 'not worth the cost' |
August 11, 2007 | EGYPT: Second girl dies during circumcision |
August 10, 2007 | NEW ZEALAND: Academic calls for circumcision at public expense |
August 10, 2007 | SENEGAL: Experts Concerned About Effect of Male Circumcision Studies
on Sexual Behavior of Men who have Sex with Men |
August 8/10, 2007 | NORWAY/SWEDEN: Fe/Male Genital Cutting Opposed/Supported |
August 7, 2007 | SEATTLE: Circumcision Status Does Not Affect Women's STI Risk (might actually increase it, but we'll ignore that) |
August 1, 2007 | U S: Circumcision debate cuts deep |
July 26, 2007 | MONTREAL: Circumcision May Not Impact Sensitivity (If You Ignore The Foreskin) |
July 23, 2007 | AUSTRALIA: Male circumcision has no role in the Australian HIV epidemic |
July 16, 2007 | ZIMBABWE: Inflation helps curb AIDS rate - men can't afford prostitutes, vindicating alternative to circumcision claim |
July 18, 2007 | MATTOON, ILLINOIS: Another boy's glans sliced off |
July 10, 2007 | LONDON: Police plea on [female] genital mutilation |
July 2, 2007 | PAKISTAN: Another death |
June 28, 2007 | NEW YORK: Talbott findings "drivel" - circumcision advocates - Talbott replies |
June 28, 2007 | FRANCE: Circumcision for HIV needs follow-up |
June 27, 2007 | SEATTLE: Use of Federal Funds for Medicaid Non-Therapeutic Circumcision is Unlawful |
June 25, 2007 | SOUTH AFRICA: Five boys die; witchcraft blamed |
June 28, 2007 | EGYPT: Girl dies; circumcision outlawed |
June 24, 2007 | LONDON: Gimme Some Skin |
June 24, 2007 | EGYPT: Mufti says female circumcision forbidden |
June 22, 2007 | OREGON: High court takes up boy's circumcision |
June 19, 2007 | NEW YORK: Circumcision: Health-conscious procedure or unnecessary sexual amputation? |
June 20, 2007 | NEW YORK: Circumcision overstated as AIDS preventative: prostitutes the key |
June 13, 2007 | OTTAWA: Boy dies from PlastiBellTM circumcision |
June 11, 2007 | LONDON: X-Man Nixes Circs! |
June 8, 2007 | SIERRA LEONE: Parliament bans child brides, not FGM |
June 7, 2007 | DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA: Doctors call for mass circumcision of babies to prevent some AIDS some day |
| May 22, 2007 | LONDON: BMJ blasts "designer vagina" craze |
| May 18, 2007 | BELARUS: Government rejects mass circumcision |
| May 18, 2007 | CAPE TOWN: Male circumcision 'no silver bullet' against Aids |
May 13, 2007 | JOHANNESBURG: Circumcision is not the solution in HIV battle |
| May 10, 2007 | KENYA: US Government funds circumcision campaign |
| May 10, 2007 | SYDNEY: Health lecturer slams circumcision |
| May 7, 2007 | OREGON: Case of 12yo "Misha" reaches Newsweek |
| May 2, 2007 | MINNESOTA: Hospital denies need for informed consent |
| April 27, 2007 | OREGON: Divorced parents disagree - father wants 12yo circumcised |
| April 26, 2007 | NEW SCIENTIST: Does circumcision harm your sex life? |
| April 27, 2007 | OREGON: Divorced parents disagree - father wants 12yo circumcised |
| April 26, 2007 | NEW SCIENTIST: Does circumcision harm your sex life? |
| April 18, 2007 | WEST VIRGINIA: Parents sue for botched circumcision |
| April 10, 2007 | UGANDA: Circumcision isn't enough |
| April 3, 2007 | NEW YORK: Health Commissioner: "I was misrepresented" |
| April 3, 2007 | BRAZIL: Brazil rejects circumcision |
| March 31, 2007 | KENYA: Luo elders reject circumcision |
| March 7, 2007 | SWITZERLAND: Male circumcision may raise HIV risk for women
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| March 5, 2007 | AMSTERDAM: Langerhans cells don't invite HIV, they protect |
| February 26, 2007 | AFRICA: FGM, circumcision "likely to spread HIV" |
| August 16, 2006 | TORONTO: Circumcision "may not protect" |
| February 15, 2007 | LONDON: Baby dies after circumcision |
| January 22, 2007 | CANADA: Prince Edward Island circumcision rate abnormally high |
| February 12, 2007 | KENYA: Headmaster who sent uncircumcised boys home suspended |
| February 12, 2007 | KENYA: Uncircumcised boys sent home from school |
| February 6, 2007 | WASHINGTON: Deaths from skin-numbing creams |
| February 5, 2007 | UNITED NATIONS: Parents Turn to Clinics for Genital Mutilation |
| December 31, 2006 | SEOUL: Circumcision reduces sexual satisfaction: study |
| December 22, 2006 | UGANDA: President rejects Circumcision/HIV conclusion |
| December 19, 2006 | NEW DELHI: Circumcision can kill: UNAIDS Head |
| December 19, 2006 | NEW DELHI: UNAIDS Head urges infant circumcision to prevent AIDS |
| December 16, 2006 | UGANDA: HIV Claim Slammed |
| December 13, 2006 | UGANDA: Incomplete study claimed to find HIV protection |
| November 21, 2006 | MALAYSIA: Yet another unnecessary botch |
| November 21, 2006 | CAIRO: Muslim scholars rule FGM un-Islamic |
| November 21, 2006 | CHRISTCHURCH: Criticisms of STI research taken on board |
| November 21, 2006 | MOPUTU: HIV claim continues despite evidence |
| November 21, 2006 | CAMEROON: Traditional practices spread HIV |
| November 22, 2006 | CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND: Scientists withdraw STI-circumcision claim |
| November 18, 2006 | ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA: Hundreds demonstrate against US FGM conviction |
| November 18, 2006 | DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND: Researchers slam STI study |
| November 14, 2006 | SWAZILAND: Mass circumcisions "to prevent HIV" |
| October 25, 2006 | GEORGIA: Man convicted for circumcising daughter |
| October 25, 2006 | SYDNEY: Bar Mitzvah moved: boy not circumcised enough |
| October 24, 2006 | CHICAGO: Judge rules against boy's circumcision |
| October 19, 2006 | DENMARK: Law against FGM prevents elective adult genital operations |
| October 18, 2006 | TURIN: Hospital offers ritual circumcision - but doctors object |
| October 17, 2006 | DUSSELDORF: Turkish ritual circumcisor fined |
| October 14, 2006 | UNITED NATIONS: Report on violence against children condemns it all, except.... |
| October 13, 2006 | JOHANNESBURG: Bush administration cuts funds for circumcisions in Swaziland |
| October 11, 2006 | JERUSALEM: Teens seduced into being circumcised |
| September 17, 2006 | BANGLADESH: Eight-year-old boy dies, doctor jailed for three years |
| August 17, 2006 | TORONTO: More doubt cast on circumcision-HIV prevention link |
| August 16, 2006 | CHICAGO: Boy loses testicle in circumcision parents didn't ask for |
| August 7, 2006 | HELSINKI: Court rules circumcision of four-year-old boy illegal |
| July 21, 2006 | OTTAWA: Canadian Governent ends circumcision funding |
| June 6, 2006 | SOWETO, SOUTH AFRICA: Doubts raised over circumcision-HIV utility |
| July 21, 2006 | WINNIPEG: Doctor wristslapped for circumcising wrong baby |
| July 20, 2006 | WWW: New weblog for first-person genital cutting stories |
| July 20, 2006 | CANADA: Hospital circumcision rate halves in 10 years |
| July 5, 2006 | TORONTO: Government pays for surgical restoration
| June 15, 2006 | NEW YORK: Mohels allowed to suck babies' penises - with Listerine |
| June 9, 2006 | DEAR ABBY: Grandmother thinks circumcision will "cure" homosexuality |
| May 18, 2006 | WINNIPEG: St Boniface hospital cuts circumcision / Plus de circoncision sur les nouveaux nés |
| April 10, 2006 | GLASGOW: Ritual circumcisions clog hospital waiting lists |
| March 31, 2006 | NORTH CAROLINA: Three men charged for consensual adult castrations |
| February 23, 2006 | SWAZILAND: "Circumcision no AIDS cure" |
| February 18, 2006 | CHICAGO: Court to rule on disputed circumcision of eight-year-old |
| February 15, 2006 | PRETORIA: South African Chilren's Act limits circumcision, sort of |
| February 8, 2006 | UGANDA: Circumcision protects female partners from HIV - NOT |
| December 26, 2005 | SWAZILAND: Campaign to circumcise "against AIDS" begins |
| December 19, 2005 | KENYA: Presbyterians medicalise circumcision rite |
| November 30, 2005 | LOS ANGELES: Statistician faults circumcision-AIDS study conclusion |
| November 11, 2005 | LONDON: Ethicist condemns (some) infant circumcision |
| October 17, 2005 | MELBOURNE: Babies feel pain more than adults: study |
| October 14, 2005 | NEW YORK: Jewish doctors condemn metzitzah |
| October 10, 2005 | WASHINGTON: Resistant staph on the rise - cut babies at risk |
| October 7, 2005 | IRELAND: Man goes free after circumcision death |
| September 17, 2005 | NEW YORK: Mohel agrees to stop metzitzah |
| August 26, 2005 | NEW YORK: City uses kid gloves after metzitzah death and two other herpes cases |
| August 9, 2005 | WELLINGTON: NZ AIDS Foundation concerned at reports |
| August 5, 2005 | LAGOS: UNAIDS urges caution on HIV-circumcision findings |
| July 27, 2005 | RIO DE JANEIRO: Male circumcision "lowers AIDS risk" Abstract and discussion |
| June 16, 2005 | LONDON: Female circumcision "is not persecution" - barrister |
| June 16, 2005 | PRETORIA: Bill makes circumcision an assault |
| May 21, 2005 | NORTH DAKOTA: Influenced by infant's cries, man wants ban on circumcision |
| May 5, 2005 | SAN FRANCISCO: Human Rights Commission slams unnecessary genital surgery of intersex children |
| May 3, 2005 | LEWES, ENGLAND: Estranged father charged with assault for having son circumcised |
| April 13, 2005 | BOISE: Idaho cuts Medicaid funding for circumcision |
| April 13, 2005 | FEZ: Prince of Morocco circumcised, 50,000 other boys also in "show of support" |
| March 23, 2005 | CAPE TOWN: Wife held after forced circumcision of husband |
| March 23, 2005 | CONNECTICUT: Lawsuit claims circumcision botched |
| March 19, 2005 | ONTARIO: Doctors accused of circumcising for the money |
| March 18, 2005 | SIERRA LEONE: Minister of Women's Affairs threates FGM opponents |
| March, 2005 | INDIANA: US Circumcision rate falls |
| March 11, 2005 | SAN FRANSISCO: Genital mutilation [except of males] is persecution, court rules |
| February 11, 2005 | KATHMANDU: Father loses second son to circumcision, ready to sacrifice third |
| February 2, 2005 | NEW YORK: Mohel practising metzitzah may have given babies herpes: one dies |
| January 8, 2005 | CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA: More initiates die - conditions "shocking" |
| January 3, 2005 | PORT ELIZABETH, SOUTH AFRICA: Young initiands kill circumcision nurse |
| December 23, 2004 | NEW YORK: Dustin Hoffman ambivalent about circumcision |
| December 14, 2004 | AMSTERDAM: Dutch Government cuts financial support for circumcision |
| December 15, 2004 | WASHINGTON: Father gets three years for more-amateur-than-usual circumcision |
| December 14, 2004 | ISRAEL: Mohel convicted for botched circumcision |
| October 22, 2004 | NEW ZEALAND: Dog-tail docking ban passes first hurdle in Parliament:
Dockers compare it with circumcision |
| October 9, 2004 | SAN FRANCISCO: Parents found to give spurious grounds for circumcision |
| July 15, 2004 | KANSAS: Mother tries to protect 3-year-old - but fails |
| July 14, 2004 | BRITISH COLOMBIA: Doctors take stand against circumcision |
| July 12, 2004 | SCOTLAND: "he was covered in blood" |
| July 8, 2004 | SOUTH AFRICA: Another circumcision school initiate dies |
| July 7, 2004 | SWEDEN: Illegal circumcision reported to police after septicaemia |
| July 4, 2004 | CAPE TOWN: Rastafarian circumcised against his will then further abused by police |
| June 16, 2004 | MOSCOW: Russia's women and gay men to be shown incomplete penises |
| June 8, 2004 | NAIROBI: Female circumcisors repent |
| June 6, 2004 | BOSTON: Sensitive treatment of FGM survivors |
| May 12, 2004 | NORTH DAKOTA: Lawyer says parents not briefed on risks of circumcising infant |
| May 10, 2004 | WINNIPEG: Botched circumcision (and human experimentation) leads to premature death of David Reimer |
| March 25, 2004 | ATLANTA: Georgia outlaws ALL [even adult consensual] female genital piercing |
| April 13, 2004 | LEBANON: French-Syrian's anti-circumcision comic strip |
| April 13, 2004 | SYDNEY: Dog-tail docking compared with circumcision |
| February 26, 2004 | NOTTINGHAM, UK: Not tested on animals - on humans instead! |
| February 19, 2004 | SOUTH AFRICA: 20 die from circumcision |
| February 16, 2004 | SYDNEY: HIV claim debunked |
| February 13, 2004 | LONDON: Museum of pain includes circumcision |
| February 2, 2004 | ISTANBUL: Circumcision slows ejaculation (Duh!) |
| February 12, 2004 | FLORENCE: Doctor proposes FGM substitute |
| February 11, 2004 | B. C.: Parents of dead boy want others warned |
| January 10, 2004 | LOS ANGELES: Couple charged with agreeing to circumcise girls |
| October 16, 2003 | ETHIOPIA: Circumcision dropped to prevent HIV |
| December 17, 2003 | MALAYSIA: Cross-cultural circumcision mooted |
| December 5, 2003 | NORWAY: Court rules circumcision causes damage |
| December 5, 2003 | DENMARK: National Council for Children calls for ban |
| November 21, 2003 | SCOTLAND: "Appalling" child porn images include circumcision |
| November 20, 2003 | SEATTLE: Scientist suspended for cutting mouse tail tips |
| November 14, 2003 | PARIS: French law "would outlaw circumcision" |
| October 30, 2003 | LONDON: Circumcising "doctor" acquitted - regulation mooted |
| October 23, 2003 | SOUTH AFRICA: Botched circumcision: traditional circumcisor gaoled |
| October 14, 2003 | KAMPALA: Uganda's president proposes banning circumcision |
| October 9, 2003 | LONG ISLAND: Four cut boys get staph. in one hospital |
| October 9, 2003 | SAN DIEGO: Another HIV correlation study of high-risk men |
| September 11, 2003 | GHANA: Woman gets five years for FGM |
| September 11, 2003 | SOUTH AFRICA: US to help fund circumcision village |
| September 7, 2003 | QUEENSLAND: Youth nipple piercing ban |
| August 22, 2003 | DUBLIN: Boy dies after circumcision |
| August 4, 2003 | BROOKLYN: $25,000,000 non-consent suit |
| July 19, 2003 | GEORGIA: First US prosecution for Female Genital Mutilation |
| June 26, 2003 | NORWAY: Children's Ombudsman critical of circumcision of boys |
| July 18, 2003 | CAPE TOWN: Circumcision does not prevent HIV |
| July 17, 2003 | MISSISSIPPI: Circumcision rate plummets when charged for |
| May 19, 2003 | MASSACHUSETTS: $725,000 damages for loss of glans-tip |
| May 6, 2003 | SEATTLE: Intactivists march |
| April 29, 2003 | NEW YORK: Sensitivity test ignores the obvious |
| April 25, 2003 | NEW YORK: Out-of-court settlement for infant circumcision |
| April 25, 2003 | WASHINGTON: USAID to push circumcision as "protection" against HIV |
| April 21, 2003 | PHILIPPINES: Doctors make a stand against male circumcision
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| April 4, 2003 |
FINLAND: Circumcision law considered |
| April 2, 2003 | NEW SOUTH WALES: Hospitals stop circumcising newborns |
| April 8, 2003 | JAPAN: Conmen circumcise innocent youth |
| April 8, 2003 | WEST HOLLYWOOD: Cat declawing outlawed |
| April 4, 2003 | LONDON: BMA ethical guidelines condemn routine infant circumcision |
| April 1, 2003 | WASHINGTON DC: Intactivists march on the Capitol |
| February 20, 2003 | AFRICA: Much HIV not sexually transmitted |
| February 18, 2003 | CALIFORNIA: Lesbian sperm bank protects babies |
| February 17, 2003 | AUSTRALIA: Many circumcisions unnecessary |
| February 7, 2003 | KENYA: Hundreds of girls run away to evade FGM |
| February 3, 2003 | Zambia: Female Genital Mutilation defended - "not violent" |
| January 21, 2003 | Benin: Female Genital Mutilation outlawed |
| January 23, 2003 | New York: A feature in the New York Times is quite balanced |
| January 12, 2003 | West Hollywood: Call to outlaw declawing of cats |
| January 20, 2002 | Yemen: Conference on Female Genital Mutilation |
| January 15, 2003 | Boston: Judge rules consent required for hair-cutting |
| December 26, 2002 | Kenya: Doubts about circumcision-HIV study |
| December 23, 2002 | California: Body-modifier arrested for performing FGM |
| December 21, 2002 | Montana: Medicaid stops funding circumcision |
| 4th quarter of 2002 | News p7 |
| 3rd quarter of 2002 | News p6 |
| 2nd quarter of 2002 | News p5 |
| 1st quarter of 2002 | News p4 |
| September - December 2001 | News p3 |
| June - August 2001 | News p2 |
| February - May 2001 | News p1 |
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