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

Williams, Brian; O. Lloyd‐Smith, James; Gouws, Eleanor; Hankins, Catherine; M. Getz, Wayne; W. Hargrove, John; De Zoysa, Isabelle; Dye, Christopher; Auvert, Bertran

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0030262

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

Published in PLoS Medicine • Jul 6, 2006

Authors:

Brian Williams

James O. Lloyd‐Smith

Eleanor Gouws

Abstract

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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Medicine

Demography

Transmission (telecommunications)

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