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http://www.aids.harvard.edu/news/spotlight/archives/v7i1_q&a_rebeca_plank.html
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| Title=Article Excerpt: | Text=She is the Principal Investigator of a new clinical trial, Infant Male Circumcision in Gaborone, Botswana, and Surrounding Areas: Feasibility, Safety and Acceptability. Plank is an Infectious Disease and HIV specialist who trained at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. | Author= | Source=| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation= | ref=<ref>http://www.aids.harvard.edu/news/spotlight/archives/v7i1_q&a_rebeca_plank.html</ref>
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Much of her work seems to be oriented to make infant circumcision acceptable in Botswana, even though the WHO's circumcision programs were originally guided to voluntary circumcision (adults) and the World's Health Organization manual for infant circumcision recognizes that "A concern about early infant male circumcision is that the child cannot give informed consent for the procedure. Moreover, some of the health benefits, including reducing the risk of HIV infection, will not be realized until many years later when the person becomes sexually active. If circumcision is postponed until an older age the patient can evaluate the risks and benefits and consent to the procedure himself."<ref>{{REFweb
| quote= | url=http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2010/9789241500753_eng.pdf | title=Manual for early infant male circumcision under local anaesthesia | last= | first= | publisher= | work= | date=2010 | accessdate=2014-05-08
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Out of the 153 babies circumcised with Mogen clamp, one died before followup. Two of the babies circumcised with Plastibell died before follow up.<ref>{{REFweb
| quote= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3683122/figure/F1/ | title=Study schema of randomization and follow up | last= | first= | publisher= | work= | date=2013-04-15 | accessdate=2014-05-08
}}</ref> These deaths are not mentioned in the abstract of the trial. In a letter to JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, Plank explains that the two babies who were circumcised with Plastibell and later died, died several weeks after the procedure from gastroenteritis. The baby circumcised with Mogen clamp died within 24 hours of the procedure of suspected sepsis, however the researcher does not think this was a consequence of the procedure, even though infection and sepsis are possible consequences of circumcision. No autopsy was performed.<ref>{{REFweb
| quote= | url=http://journals.lww.com/jaids/Fulltext/2013/10010/Author_s_Reply___A_Randomized_Trial_of_Mogen_Clamp.20.aspx | title=Author's Reply: A Randomized Trial of Mogen Clamp Versus Plastibell for Neonatal Male Circumcision in Botswana | last= | first= | publisher= | work= | date=2013-10-01 | accessdate=2014-05-08
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| Title=Author's reply: A randomized trial of Mogen clamp versus Plastibell for neonatal male circumcision in Botswana. | Text="The baby was circumcised using a Mogen clamp on day of life 2 and discharged to home later that day. The following day he was brought to the local health center with respiratory distress and was noted to be febrile and was transferred to the district hospital. The study team was not notified of his admission until the next morning, after he had died. The circumstances of this baby's death were reviewed in great detail with several groups to obtain independent assessment of the cause of death: the hospital staff, the Botswana Ministry of Health, the Botswana Health Research and Development Committee, the Partners Institutional Review Board, and our own Data Safety Monitoring Committee. All parties agreed that based on all the clinical data available, the most likely cause of death was neonatal sepsis or pneumonia and that it was extremely unlikely that the baby's death was related to the circumcision procedure."
"Autopsies are very rarely performed in Botswana and were not performed in any of the 3 deaths in the study. Detailed diagnostic work-ups are also often not available in resource-limited settings or are not performed (eg, because a baby dies at home). Finally, prenatal screening for group B streptococcus is not routinely performed, and mothers do not receive prophylactic antibiotics."
"Neonates in much of sub-Saharan Africa face the highest mortality rates in the world, and we agree that the exact cause of their death is often not known."
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