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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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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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,
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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.
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Safe male circumcision in Botswana: Tension between traditional practices and biomedical marketing [PDF]
Global Public Health, 2015 Botswana has been running Safe Male Circumcision (SMC) since 2009 and has not yet met its target. Donors like the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Africa Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnership (funded by the Gates Foundation) in ...
Marguerite Daniel, Masego Katisi
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Reported Effectiveness of a Text-Based Post-Operative Care Intervention After Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) to Improve Quality of Care and Adverse Events Identification in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review. [PDF]
Health Sci RepABSTRACT Background and Aim Although the two‐way texting (2wT) intervention is a promising mobile‐health (mHealth) approach, limited research exists on its implementation, acceptability and potential benefits within Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) context.
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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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Effects of Perioperative Music Interventions on Emotional Outcomes in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Integrating Developmental Psychology and Music Education Perspectives. [PDF]
Paediatr AnaesthABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the effects of perioperative music interventions on emotional outcomes (preoperative anxiety, postoperative fear, emergence delirium) and related physiological parameters in children and adolescents undergoing surgery, and to examine potential effect modifiers.
Wen Y, Han J, Gao J, Lou J, Xiang Z.
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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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