WHO's VMMC targeting of India and China

[ICASM Network]

WHO's VMMC targeting of India and China could be a massive threat in the very short term

[Michael Winnel]

In my conversation today with Steve Bohm/YWB he raised precisely this concern. Undoubtedly This needs our attention. Steve and I agreed that this has potential to do damage similar to the circumcision suffering of the muslim world. China + India = 2.6 Billion Pop. Big money for the circ industry - industries love 'emerging markets'.

Perhaps Dr Amilal could address these converns in the Q and A part of his presentation?

[Michael Winnel]

With Dr Amilal as our valued ally and portal into India, and Dr Fahmy into the Muslim world via Egypt, next we would be served by finding an ally in China. Any leads?

[ICASM Network]

Received this information from MBI after Amilal Bhat's presentation on June 28th, about India entry points for ICASM:

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Dr Shisher Agrawal (Board Member of Indian Academy Of Pediatrics)
Bloodstained Men interviewed him at the 2017 AAP convention in Chicago, and he gave a strong pro-intact statement [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjiqXqgXMPQ
https://www.facebook.com/drshisher

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[jean-christophe Lurenbaum]

News from the scientific committee / Pakistan (WHO start another invasion to Pakistan with the program of male circumcision)

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Implementation of an infant male circumcision programme, Pakistan, Bull World Health Organ, 2021

Shazia Moosa, Ammar Ali Muhammad, Sohail Dogar, Sundus Iftikhar, Walter Johnson, Asad Latife & Lubna Samada

Objective To retrospectively review outcomes of a health provider-led infant circumcision programme in Pakistan.

Methods Based on World Health Organization guidelines, we trained surgical technicians and midwives to perform circumcisions using the Plastibell device at two Indus Health Network facilities. Programme tools include a training manual for health providers, information brochures for families, an enrolment form and standardized forms for documenting details of the procedure and outcomes. Infants aged 1–92 days were eligible for the study. Health workers contacted families on days 1 and 7 after the procedure to record any adverse events. We compared the characteristics of infants experiencing adverse events with infants facing no complications using multivariate logistic regression.

Findings Between August 2016 and August 2018, 2822 circumcised male infants with mean age 22.8 days were eligible for the study. Of these, 2617 infants (92.7%) were followed up by telephone interviews of caretakers. Older infants were more likely to experience adverse events than infants circumcised between 1–30 days of age []

Conclusion Standardized training protocols and close monitoring enabled nonphysician health providers to perform safe circumcisions on infants aged three months or younger.