James,
Thank you for this, very interesting. The lack of provision for cultural rather than religious reasons is worrying; the vast majority of complications following circumcision in Italy (including two infant deaths last year) involved nigerian families; the intervention was not on religious grounds.
Giovanna Maria Polato
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> Dear Colleagues,
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> Religious Male Infant Circumcision
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> I am doing some scoping on the issue of male infant
> circumcision,
> looking at what models are in place, how the service is
> quality assured
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> Please can you all send me information about the provision
> of religious
> male infant circumcision in your areas? Please send any
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