Male circumcision to cut HIV risk in the general population

Lancet

Volumn 369, Issue 9562, 2007, Pages 617-619

  Newell, Marie Louise ^a,b   Bärnighausen, Till ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CIRCUMCISION; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFECTION RISK; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION;

EID: 33847225273     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60288-8     Document Type: Note

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