Women as Agents of Change: Male Circumcision and HIV Prevention in Kenya.
The recent promotion of male circumcision as a public health strategy is based on research evidence from three randomised control trials conducted in South Africa, Kisumu in Kenya, and Rakai in Uganda. The evidence suggests that male circumcision provides heterosexual men 50–60% protective benefit a...
| Publicado en: | Sexuality & Culture Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 1074 - 1090 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=156759483&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 156759483 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10955143 DZ0 jtl: Sexuality & Culture issn: 10955143 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jun2022 vid: 26 iid: 3 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 156759483 10.1007/s12119-021-09932-8 ppf: 1074 ppct: 16 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 708KB tig: atl: Women as Agents of Change: Male Circumcision and HIV Prevention in Kenya. aug: au: Njoroge, Kezia Muthoni Cattan, Mima Chinouya, Martha Ahlberg, Beth Maina affil: Department of Health Systems Management, Kenya Methodist University, Meru, Kenya Department of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, London, UK Department of Women's and Children's Health and Skaraborg Institute of Research and Development, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden su: Public health Heterosexual men HIV infections Sexual assault Circumcision Kenya sug: subj: Kenya Public health Heterosexual men HIV infections Sexual assault Circumcision keyword: Focused ethnography Male circumcision Road license Voluntary medical male circumcision Wiping the soot ab: The recent promotion of male circumcision as a public health strategy is based on research evidence from three randomised control trials conducted in South Africa, Kisumu in Kenya, and Rakai in Uganda. The evidence suggests that male circumcision provides heterosexual men 50–60% protective benefit against HIV infection. For the Kikuyu people in Kenya, male circumcision is a cultural rite of passage from childhood to adulthood. The focus of this study was male circumcision practices in Muranga of Kenya and their implications on public health. There is a paucity of studies and reports on cultural practices of male circumcision in Kenya. This article discusses male circumcision meaning and associated changes with a central focus on women. A qualitative research design underpinned by an Interpretivist paradigm was employed. Focused ethnographic methodology captured the cultural context of the ritual and its meaning. Purposive and snowball sampling were used to select the study participants. Indepth interviews with 13 circumcision mentors, participant observations in three churches, and narratives writing with 43 male students from six schools were conducted. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. The findings suggest a changing circumcision ritual with women at the forefront of most of these changes in a male arena ritual. The church, hospital, and urbanisation emerged as the drivers of change, through which women aimed at protecting their sons from practices in the ritual, that they deemed harmful, such as harassment and sexual violence. The changes in the male circumcision ritual are significant to public health. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Sexuality & Culture is a copyright of Springer, 2022. All Rights Reserved. item: Sexuality & Culture holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2022 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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