Impact of male circumcision on the HIV epidemic in Papua New Guinea: a country with extensive foreskin cutting practices

The degree to which adult medical male circumcision (MC) programs can reduce new HIV infections in a moderate HIV prevalence country like Papua New Guinea (PNG) are uncertain especially given the widespread prevalence of longitudinal foreskin cuts among adult males. We estimated the likely impact of...

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Veröffentlicht in:	PloS one 2014-08, Vol.9 (8), p.e104531-e104531
Hauptverfasser:	Gray, Richard T, Vallely, Andrew, Wilson, David P, Kaldor, John, MacLaren, David, Kelly-Hanku, Angela, Siba, Peter, Murray, John M
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Acquired immune deficiency syndrome Adolescent Adult Age AIDS Biology and Life Sciences Child Child, Preschool Circumcision Circumcision, Male - ethnology Circumcision, Male - statistics & numerical data Condoms - statistics & numerical data Cutting Disease prevention Disease transmission Effectiveness Epidemics Epidemics - prevention & control Female Foreskin HIV HIV Infections - epidemiology HIV Infections - prevention & control HIV Infections - transmission Human immunodeficiency virus Humans Infant Infant, Newborn Infections Male Males Mathematical models Medical diagnosis Medicine and Health Sciences Men Middle Aged Models, Statistical Papua New Guinea - epidemiology Papua New Guinea - ethnology Prostitution Risk Sex Sexually transmitted diseases STD Systematic review Workers Young Adult
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