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Honduras

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ISO: HND Region: Latin America

0.1% circumcision prevalence

Prevalence of non-therapeutic male circumcision.

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Jul 9, 2026

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Research note: Honduras DEEP_BUILT 2026-07-12. Morris 2016 PMC4772313: 0.1% (confirmed 3-0) - EXPLICITLY the paper's methodological FLOOR value, NOT a precise measurement; a separate "~1%" claim REFUTED as a 10x misattribution. DISTINCTIVE #1: Arab-Honduran/Palestinian community confirmed 95% Christian NOT Muslim (~11,000 Muslims nationally) - clarifies Palestinian ancestry does not correlate with Islamic circumcision practice here. DISTINCTIVE #2 (rare individually-verified harm case): 20-month-old Marcos Jair Barahona Montes died 2014 after circumcision at IHSS (Social Security) clinic in Tela - discharged 1:30pm, became unresponsive/cyanotic ~3hrs later, transferred to San Pedro Sula hospital, died of multi-organ failure - REPORTED confidence, corroborated across 2 La Prensa Honduras articles incl. father's direct quote. No statute found (not on ARC Law's list). HIV ~0.2% currently (2023) vs a striking historical 2001 peak of ~1.9% (Honduras was once the WORST-affected Central American country, ~50-60% of regional AIDS cases at only ~17% of regional population) - one of the steepest documented regional HIV declines. UNREGULATED. NOT VMMC priority. Sources #1502-1509. FIFTH and FINAL of Batch 4 (Central America): Costa Rica/Nicaragua/Panama/El Salvador/Honduras all complete.

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Legal status

Unregulated

This research did not locate a Honduran statute specifically addressing non-therapeutic male circumcision. This research did not independently verify Honduras's female genital mutilation legal status either. Female genital mutilation is a separate matter and must not be conflated with male circumcision.

Medical & HIV context

0.2%

Adult HIV prevalence

UNAIDS/WB (2023) · Adults 15–49

Circumcision in newborns

Non-therapeutic (cultural practice)

no tradition

Typical age

Benchmarks are international context — not a local complication rate.

Incident registry

Verified cases documented in Honduras.

Honduran toddler dies after a circumcision at a Social Security clinic

Tela, Atlántida, Honduras · 31 Jul 2014

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Country write-ups

Honduras: A Toddler's Death at a Social Security Clinic, and a Region's Steepest HIV Decline

A 2014 circumcision death at a Honduran public hospital is one of the few individually documented cases in this entire Central American research batch — set against a country that fell from the region's worst HIV burden to near the lowest

Dec 1, 2026