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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Replying to @ynabeesa
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#i21 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @cooney21
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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Replying to @ynabeesa
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.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @cooney21
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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We circumcise children who meet the qualifications.
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Replying to @ynabeesa
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@BillGates5 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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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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 …3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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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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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