The Potential Impact of Male Circumcision on HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa

BACKGROUND: A randomized controlled trial (RCT) has shown that male circumcision (MC) reduces sexual transmission of HIV from women to men by 60% (32%−76%; 95% CI) offering an intervention of proven efficacy for reducing the sexual spread of HIV. We explore the implications of this finding for the p...

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Main Authors: Williams, Brian G, Lloyd-Smith, James O, Gouws, Eleanor, Hankins, Catherine, Getz, Wayne M, Hargrove, John, de Zoysa, Isabelle, Dye, Christopher, Auvert, Bertran
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2006
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Research Article
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1489185/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16822094
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030262
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