Exploring drivers for safe male circumcision: Experiences with health education and understanding of partial HIV protection among newly circumcised men in Wakiso, Uganda. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 IntroductionAbout 2.5 million men have voluntarily been circumcised since Uganda started implementing the WHO recommendation to scale up safe male circumcision to reduce HIV transmission. This study sought to understand what influences men's circumcision
Simon P S Kibira +4 more
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Exploring the roots of antagony in the safe male circumcision partnership in Botswana. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 BACKGROUND:Partnerships in global health and development governance have been firmly established as a tool to achieve effective outcomes. Botswana implements Safe Male Circumcision (SMC) for HIV prevention through a North-South partnership comprising the
Masego Katisi, Marguerite Daniel
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"After my husband's circumcision, I know that I am safe from diseases": women's attitudes and risk perceptions towards male circumcision in Iringa, Tanzania. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 While male circumcision reduces the risk of female-to-male HIV transmission and certain sexually transmitted infections (STIs), there is little evidence that circumcision provides women with direct protection against HIV.
Erica H Layer +5 more
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Reach and cost-effectiveness of the PrePex device for safe male circumcision in Uganda. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 INTRODUCTION: Modelling, supported by the USAID Health Policy Initiative and UNAIDS, performed in 2011, indicated that Uganda would need to perform 4.2 million medical male circumcisions (MMCs) to reach 80% prevalence. Since 2010 Uganda has completed 380,
Kevin Duffy +4 more
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Modeling the Impact of Uganda's Safe Male Circumcision Program: Implications for Age and Regional Targeting. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 BackgroundUganda aims to provide safe male circumcision (SMC) to 80% of men ages 15-49 by 2016. To date, only 2 million men have received SMC of the 4.2 million men required.
Katharine Kripke +12 more
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Correction: Modeling the Impact of Uganda's Safe Male Circumcision Program: Implications for Age and Regional Targeting. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158693.].
Katharine Kripke +12 more
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Mass safe male circumcision: early lessons from a Ugandan urban site - a case study [PDF]
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2012 INTRODUCTION: It has been proven in several randomized clinical trials that HIV transmission from female to male is reduced by 60% and more among circumcised males.
Moses Galukande +8 more
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Perceptions of HIV and Safe Male Circumcision in High HIV Prevalence Fishing Communities on Lake Victoria, Uganda. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 BACKGROUND:In 2010, the Uganda Ministry of Health introduced its Safe Male Circumcision (SMC) strategy for HIV prevention with the goal of providing 4.2 million voluntary medical male circumcisions by 2015.
Paul E Nevin +5 more
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The perceptions on male circumcision as a preventive measure against HIV infection and considerations in scaling up of the services: a qualitative study among police officers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2012 Background In recent randomized controlled trials, male circumcision has been proven to complement the available biomedical interventions in decreasing HIV transmission from infected women to uninfected men. Consequently, Tanzania is striving to scale-up
Tarimo Edith AM +5 more
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Factors associated with acceptability of child circumcision in Botswana -- a cross sectional survey [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2016 Background Safe male child circumcision has been recently adopted as a potential strategy to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission in later life in Botswana. Methods Data used was derived from a cross-sectional survey, the Botswana AIDS Impact Survey (BAIS) IV ...
Mpho Keetile, Motsholathebe Bowelo
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