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Impact of Male Circumcision on the HIV Epidemic in Papua New Guinea: A Country with Extensive Foreskin Cutting Practices
The degree to which adult medical male circumcision (MC) programs can reduce new HIV infections in a moderate HIV prevalence country like Papua New Guinea (PNG) are uncertain especially given the widespread prevalence of longitudinal foreskin cuts among adult males. We estimated the likely impact of...
Autores principales: | Gray, Richard T., Vallely, Andrew, Wilson, David P., Kaldor, John, MacLaren, David, Kelly-Hanku, Angela, Siba, Peter, Murray, John M. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4128698/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25111058 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0104531 |
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