University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
J Health Psychol. 2018 May;23(6):871-881. doi: 10.1177/1359105316651709. Epub 2016 Jun 12.
Medical adult male circumcision has been shown to offer men significant protection against HIV infection during peno-vaginal sex. This has resulted in calls for a national roll-out of medical adult male circumcision in South Africa, a rights-based constitutional democracy. This article explores the ways that the potential tensions between this call to circumcise as a practice of good health citizenship and the guaranteed right to bodily integrity are negotiated in interviews with 30 urban-based men in Johannesburg. The results suggest that despite its demonstrable biological efficacy, these tensions may paralyse decision- and policy-makers in grappling with the potential scaling up of medical adult male circumcision for HIV prevention in South Africa.
医学男性割礼已被证明可显著降低男性经阴道性行为感染艾滋病毒的风险。这导致南非呼吁在这个基于权利的宪法民主国家普及医学男性割礼。本文通过对约翰内斯堡 30 名城市男性的访谈，探讨了将割礼作为健康公民实践和身体完整权利保障之间潜在紧张关系的协商方式。结果表明，尽管其具有明显的生物学功效，但这些紧张关系可能会使决策者在考虑南非扩大医学男性割礼以预防艾滋病毒时犹豫不决。
