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Use of Economic Compensation to Increase Demand for Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in Kenya: Qualitative Interviews With Male Participants in a Randomized Controlled Trial and Their Partners [PDF]

, 2016
Interventions to increase demand for medical male circumcision are urgently needed in eastern and southern Africa. Following promising evidence that providing economic compensation can increase male circumcision uptake in Kenya, there is a need to ...
Agot, Kawango, Evens, Emily, Lanham, Michele, Murray, Kate, Omanga, Eunice, Rao, Samwel, Thirumurthy, Harsha   +6 more
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Cost and Impact of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in South Africa: Focusing the Program on Specific Age Groups and Provinces

PLoS ONE, 2016
Background In 2012, South Africa set a goal of circumcising 4.3 million men ages 15–49 by 2016. By the end of March 2014, 1.9 million men had received voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC). In an effort to accelerate progress, South Africa undertook
K. Kripke, Ping-An Chen, A. Vazzano, A. Thambinayagam, Y. Pillay, D. Loykissoonlal, C. Bonnecwe, P. Barron, Eva Kiwango, D. Castor, E. Njeuhmeli   +10 more
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Male circumcision for HIV prevention: a prospective study of complications in clinical and traditional settings in Bungoma, Kenya

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2008
OBJECTIVE: Male circumcision reduces the risk of HIV acquisition by approximately 60%. Male circumcision services are now being introduced in selected populations in sub-Saharan Africa and further interventions are being planned.
Robert C Bailey, Omar Egesah, Stephanie Rosenberg   +2 more
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Evidence that promotion of male circumcision did not lead to sexual risk compensation in prioritized Sub-Saharan countries

PLoS ONE, 2017
Background WHO and UNAIDS prioritized 14 eastern and southern African countries with high HIV and low male circumcision prevalence for a voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) scale-up in 2007.
Chyun-Fung Shi, Michael Li, J. Dushoff
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Factors Influencing Chinese Male\u27s Willingness to Undergo Circumcision: A Cross-Sectional Study in Western China [PDF]

, 2012
Background Male circumcision (MC) has been shown to reduce the risk of female to male transmission of HIV. The goal of this survey was to explore the acceptability of MC among the Chinese and to identify factors associated with circumcision preference ...
Abdullah, Abu S., Deng, Wei, Jiang, Junjun, Liang, Hao, Qin, Bo, Ruan, Yuhua, Wang, Qian, Wang, Qianqiu, Wei, Bo, Wei, Fumei, Xie, Peiyan, Xu, Na, Yang, Xiaobo, Zhang, Weili, Zhong, Chaohui, Zou, Yunfeng   +15 more
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Circumventing the Urologist: A Case of Poorly Executed Self-Circumcision

Journal of Urological Surgery, 2016
Circumcision is a relatively brief and safe procedure when performed by a medical professional. Recently, clamp-assisted circumcisions in the adult male have gained increased interest due to potential public health benefits.
Timothy Rogers, Omar Mostafa, Hesham Mostafa, Tim Suttle   +3 more
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A cross-sectional study of the factors associated with male circumcision status among college youth in Ndola, Zambia, 2016

Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 2019
Background: New cases of HIV are increasing among young adults in Zambia; yet voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) coverage as an HIV prevention measure remains low.
Ernest Kateule, Ramya Kumar, David Mwakazanga, Modest Mulenga, Victor Daka, Gershom Chongwe   +5 more
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Interaction Mechanisms Quantified from Dynamical Features of Frog Choruses [PDF]

arXiv, 2019
Interaction mechanism in the acoustic communication of actual animals is investigated by combining mathematical modeling and empirical data. Here we use a deterministic mathematical model (a phase oscillator model) to describe the interaction mechanism underlying the choruses of male Japanese tree frogs (Hyla japonica) in which the male frogs attempt ...
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Chemokine Levels in the Penile Coronal Sulcus Correlate with HIV-1 Acquisition and Are Reduced by Male Circumcision in Rakai, Uganda

PLoS Pathogens, 2016
Individual susceptibility to HIV is heterogeneous, but the biological mechanisms explaining differences are incompletely understood. We hypothesized that penile inflammation may increase HIV susceptibility in men by recruiting permissive CD4 T cells, and
J. Prodger, R. Gray, Brett Shannon, K. Shahabi, Xiangrong Kong, K. Grabowski, G. Kigozi, F. Nalugoda, D. Serwadda, M. Wawer, S. Reynolds, Cindy M Liu, A. Tobian, R. Kaul   +13 more
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Lancet Glob Health [PDF]

BackgroundMale circumcision reduces men\u2019s risk of acquiring HIV and some sexually transmitted infections from heterosexual exposure, and is essential for HIV prevention in sub-Saharan Africa.

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