Estimating the resources needed and savings anticipated from roll-out of adult male circumcision in sub-Saharan Africa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Auvert, Bertran ^a,b,c   Marseille, Elliot ^d   Korenromp, Eline L ^e,f   Lloyd Smith, James ^g   Sitta, Remi ^a   Taljaard, Dirk ^h   Pretorius, Carel ⁱ   Williams, Brian ^j   Kahn, James G ^d  

^a HÔPITAL PAUL BROUSSE   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c HÔPITAL AMBROISE PARÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA   (Switzerland)

^g PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h Progressus   (South Africa)

ⁱ STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^j WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CIRCUMCISION; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; MALE; PUBLIC HEALTH; ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ECONOMICS; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CIRCUMCISION, MALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 50949134533     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002679     Document Type: Article

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