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Causes of Acute Hospitalization in Adolescence: Burden and Spectrum of HIV-Related Morbidity in a Country with an Early-Onset and Severe HIV Epidemic: A Prospective Survey [PDF]

, 2010
Background: Survival to older childhood with untreated, vertically acquired HIV infection, which was previously considered extremely unusual, is increasingly well described.
Nathoo, Kusum, Shungu Munyati, Kusum Nathoo, Mujuru, H, Cowan, Frances M, Mujuru, Hilda, Larke, Natasha, Tsitsi Bandason, Hilda Mujuru, Larke, N, Bandason, T, Nathoo, K, Ndhlovu, Chiratidzo E, Munyati, S, Musvaire, P, Corbett, EL, Elizabeth L Corbett, Gibb, Diana M, Bandason, Tsitsi, Musvaire, Praise, Corbett, Elizabeth L, Gibb, DM, Cowan, FM, Ferrand, RA, Praise Musvaire, Ndhlovu, CE, Ferrand, Rashida A, Frances M Cowan, Chiratidzo E Ndhlovu, Diana M Gibb, Rashida A Ferrand, Munyati, Shungu, Natasha Larke   +32 more
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Circumcision weeks: Making circumcision part of routine training and service delivery at district-level hospitals in South Africa

South African Family Practice, 2011
Background: Medically safe, elective male circumcision supports traditional and cultural rites of passage by reducing the risk of adverse events and death among men undergoing initiation.
F. Peters, T.S. Marcus
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Cost‐Effectiveness and Impact of Depression Treatment Implementation on HIV Outcomes in Western Kenya: A Mathematical Modelling Study

Journal of the International AIDS Society, Volume 29, Issue 9, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction In eastern, central and southern Africa, HIV is a leading cause of mortality, and both HIV and depression contribute substantially to morbidity. Depression can impede effective HIV treatment and prevention, yet access to depression treatment remains limited.
Daniel T. Citron, Hae‐Young Kim, Roscoe Kasujja, Khamisi Musanje, Samuel M. Mwalili, Duncan Kioi Gathungu, Peris Wambui, Chikumbi Chambwe, Ingrida Platais, Frey B. Assefa, Mellesia Jeetoo, R. Scott Braithwaite, Anna Bershteyn   +12 more
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Have We Met Before? Findings on HIV Retesting in Routine Healthcare Settings, Using Eswatini HIV‐1 Recent Infection Surveillance Data

Journal of the International AIDS Society, Volume 29, Issue 9, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction Eswatini is rapidly approaching the conditions needed to achieve and sustain HIV epidemic control. Repeating diagnostic testing of people living with HIV (PLHIV) already on antiretroviral therapy (ART) is not typically indicated, can lead to misidentification of new HIV diagnoses and distorts estimates of progress towards epidemic
Claire C. Steiner, Eugenie A. Poirot, Samkelo Simelane, Dumile Sibandze, Lenhle Dube, Vusie Lokotfwako, Jessica Justman, Kathryn Lupoli, Trudy Dobbs, Munyaradzi Pasipamire, Cebisile Ngcamphalala, Ruben Sahabo, Harriet Nuwagaba‐Biribonwoha, Suzue Saito   +13 more
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Large Language Models and Male Circumcision: A Reliability Assessment [PDF]

Aim: Male circumcision remains routine in some countries for neonatal or religious reasons; however, it continues to be the subject of ongoing debate concerning its health benefits, potential risks, and implications for bodily autonomy.
Ibrahim Hacibey, Ismail Ulus, Gokhan Ceker   +2 more
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Modelling the public health impact of male circumcision for HIV prevention in high prevalence areas in Africa

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2007
Background Recent clinical trials in Africa, in combination with several observational epidemiological studies, have provided evidence that male circumcision can reduce HIV female-to-male transmission risk by 60% or more.
Moses Stephen, Nagelkerke Nico JD, de Vlas Sake J, Bailey Robert C   +3 more
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Male Circumcision for the Prevention of HSV-2 and HPV Infections and Syphilis

, 2009
BACKGROUND: Male circumcision significantly reduced the incidence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among men in three clinical trials. We assessed the efficacy of male circumcision for the prevention of herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2 ...
Serwadda, David, Riedesel, Melissa, Chen, Michael Z., Tobian, Aaron A.R., Oliver, Amy E., Kigozi, Godfrey, Charvat, Blake, Wawer, Maria J., Reynolds, Steven J., Laeyendecker, Oliver, Gravitt, Patti E., Nowak, Rebecca G., Quinn, Thomas C., Moulton, Lawrence H., Gray, Ronald H., Ssempijja, Victor   +15 more
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The influence of socioeconomic factors on choice of infant male circumcision provider in rural Ghana; a community level population based study

BMC Pediatrics, 2017
Background The influence of socio-economic determinants on choice of infant male circumcision provider is not known in areas with high population coverage such as rural Africa. The overall aim of this study was to determine the key socio-economic factors
Thomas Gyan, Kimberley McAuley, Natalie Strobel, Sam Newton, Seth Owusu-Agyei, Karen Edmond   +5 more
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The Development of Professional Guidelines on the Law and Ethics of Male Circumcision

, 2004
This paper does not attempt to lay out the arguments relating to male circumcision for non-medical reasons. Rather, the aim is to focus more on the process and the problems of a professional body (in this case the British Medical Association (BMA ...
Mussell, R.
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Youth Traditional Male Circumcision (TMC) as a tool to fight HIV/AIDS in South Africa: Implications for Human Rights and Social Work Practice [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Traditional Male Circumcision (TMC) as a feasible tool to increase HIV/AIDS response needs to be validated and advocated to especially its adherents who, from time immemorial, hold to the fact that its goal has been to achieve some socio-cultural goal ...
Simon Murote Kang’ethe
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