Acceptability of male circumcision among mothers with male children in Mysore, India

AIDS

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 983-988

  Madhivanan, Purnima ^a,b   Krupp, Karl ^b   Chandrasekaran, Varalakshmi ^b   Karat, Samuel C ^c   Reingold, Arthur L ^a   Klausner, Jeffrey D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Public Health Research Institute   (India)

^c Holdsworth Memorial Hospital   (India)

^d SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceptability; Circumcision; India; Men; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CIRCUMCISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CIRCUMCISION, MALE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; RELIGION AND MEDICINE;

EID: 43249097240     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e3282ffde52     Document Type: Article

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