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    1. Black Girl Magic  🌊 💫 💞‏ @ynabeesa 5 Apr 2019
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      Actually, for kids, it helps in easing the pain from hypospadia and hyperspadia and other issues a kid may be born with on his penis.

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    2. Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 5 Apr 2019
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      Circumcision to address hypospadia/hyperspadia isn't always medically necessary or recommended. But the fact that it might be can't justify routinely forcing circumcision on healthy children. Stop confusing therapeutic & non therapeutic #circumcision. https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/conservative-treatment.pdf …

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    3. Black Girl Magic  🌊 💫 💞‏ @ynabeesa 5 Apr 2019
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      It is recommended. Really, not forced. At the end of the day, the parents decide if they want their infant to go through with the procedure or not. It is a surgery, and surgeries require consent. Don't they?

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    4. Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 5 Apr 2019
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      You continue to misunderstand the difference between therapeutic & nontherapeutic #circumcision. Without an actual medical condition that needs to be treated with circumcision (extremely rare), the surgery is nontherapeutic & only the patient himself can validly consent to it #i2

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    5. Black Girl Magic  🌊 💫 💞‏ @ynabeesa 5 Apr 2019
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      Exactly. VMMC is voluntary and has been used to refer a lot of patients to specialists. We offer a package consisting of free STI Screening and treatment, HIV counselling, testing and risk counselling, condom distribution and referral to specialist care etc

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    6. Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 6 Apr 2019
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      Are you saying #VMMC doesn't circumcise healthy children? Because if not, you're still not understanding the difference between therapeutic & nontherapeutic (elective) surgery. Children can't validly consent to elective surgery of any kind, let alone surgery to cut off genitalia.

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    7. Black Girl Magic  🌊 💫 💞‏ @ynabeesa 6 Apr 2019
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      As I said, children are minors. Also, people change their minds at the last minute. Some children do. They are allowed to change their minds, are they not? That is why it is not FMMC but VMMC

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    8. Black Girl Magic  🌊 💫 💞‏ @ynabeesa 6 Apr 2019
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      We circumcise children who meet the qualifications.

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    9. Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 6 Apr 2019
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      No child can possibly "meet the qualifications" b/c children cannot validly #consent to elective surgery. Why is this irrefutable ethical fact so difficult to understand? #i2 @WHO @CDCgov @AmerAcadPeds #tweetiatrician #VMMC #MedEd #MedTwitter @HillaryClinton @BillGates

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    10. Black Girl Magic  🌊 💫 💞‏ @ynabeesa 6 Apr 2019
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      Children under 18 don't sign their consent forms. They are minors. Their parents do. By qualifications I meant things like, no sores, children who are not underweight, to name a few.

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      Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 6 Apr 2019
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      Exactly. The reason why children under 18 don't sign #consent forms is that they are too young to give valid consent. Their parents' "consent" is not a valid substitute in the absence of a clinical condition to be diagnosed or treated. #i2 @AmerAcadPeds https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/95/2/314.full.pdf …

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        2. Black Girl Magic  🌊 💫 💞‏ @ynabeesa 6 Apr 2019
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          One other thing I forgot to mention: in Kenya, the HIV rates are comparatively high around the Lake Victoria basin, and relatively low around the Eastern part of the country. This was also another reason VMMC was proposed.

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        3. Bill Cooney‏ @cooney21 6 Apr 2019
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          The campaign to #circumcise every male in #Africa has been going on for well over a decade now & there's no evidence that there is any actual correlation between areas in Africa where more men have been cut & reduced prevalence of HIV - quite the opposite in fact. #i2

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        1. Black Girl Magic  🌊 💫 💞‏ @ynabeesa 6 Apr 2019
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          See, the Eastern part of Kenya is inhabited by communities that mostly practice Islam. Islam dictates circumcision of males, presumably at infancy. The Lake basin of L. Victoria, while surrounded by circumcising communities, does not actually practice it

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        1. Black Girl Magic  🌊 💫 💞‏ @ynabeesa 6 Apr 2019
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          The infection rates of HIV are distinctly higher around the lake region, with some areas surpassing 20% of infection rates especially among the youth. The eastern part has rates that are much lower. This is another reason why VMMC was advocated.

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