ArticlePloS one2013
"After my husband's circumcision, I know that I am safe from diseases": women's attitudes and risk perceptions towards male circumcision in Iringa, Tanzania.
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- Sex and Male Circumcision: Women's Preferences Across Different Cultures and Countries: A Systematic Review.Sexual medicine · 2019Review
- Women's role in male circumcision promotion in Rakai, Uganda.AIDS care · 2019Article
- Perceived HIV-protective benefits of male circumcision: Risk compensatory behaviour among women in Malawi.PloS one · 2019Article
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- Optimizing Prevention of HIV and Unplanned Pregnancy in Discordant African Couples.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2017Article
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- Evidence that promotion of male circumcision did not lead to sexual risk compensation in prioritized Sub-Saharan countries.PloS one · 2017Article
- Female Partner Acceptance as a Predictor of Men's Readiness to Undergo Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in Zambia: The Spear and Shield Project.AIDS and behavior · 2016Article
- Periconception HIV Risk Behavior Among Men and Women Reporting HIV-Serodiscordant Partners in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.AIDS and behavior · 2015Article
- Male circumcision for protection against HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa: the evidence in favour justifies the implementation now in progress.Global public health · 2015Article
- Towards a gender perspective in qualitative research on voluntary medical male circumcision in east and southern Africa.Global public health · 2015Article
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- Women's beliefs about male circumcision, HIV prevention, and sexual behaviors in Kisumu, Kenya.PloS one · 2014Article
- AIDS prevention: Africa's circumcision challenge.Nature · 2013Article
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Abstract
While male circumcision reduces the risk of female-to-male HIV transmission and certain sexually transmitted infections (STIs), there is little evidence that circumcision provides women with direct protection against HIV. This study used qualitative methods to assess women's perceptions of male circumcision in Iringa, Tanzania. Women in this study had strong preferences for circumcised men because of the low risk perception of HIV with circumcised men, social norms favoring circumcised men, and perceived increased sexual desirability of circumcised men. The health benefits of male circumcision were generally overstated; many respondents falsely believed that women are also directly protected against HIV and that the risk of all STIs is greatly reduced or eliminated in circumcised men. Efforts to engage women about the risks and limitations of male circumcision, in addition to the benefits, should be expanded so that women can accurately assess their risk of HIV or STIs during sexual intercourse with circumcised men.
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