Voluntary medical male circumcision: strategies for meeting the human resource needs of scale-up in southern and eastern Africa.

Voluntary medical male circumcision: strategies for meeting the human resource needs of scale-up in southern and eastern Africa.

Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) reduces female-to-male HIV transmission by approximately 60%; modeling suggests that scaling up VMMC to 80% of men 15- to 49-years-old within five years would avert over 3.3 million new HIV infections in 14 high priority countries/regions in southern and ea...

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Main Authors: Kelly Curran, Emmanuel Njeuhmeli, Andrew Mirelman, Kim Dickson, Tigistu Adamu, Peter Cherutich, Hally Mahler, Bennett Fimbo, Thembisile Khumalo Mavuso, Jennifer Albertini, Laura Fitzgerald, Naomi Bock, Jason Reed, Delivette Castor, David Stanton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-11-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3226463?pdf=render

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