Voluntary medical male circumcision: Strategies for meeting the human resource needs of scale-up in Southern and Eastern Africa

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Curran, Kelly ^a,b   Njeuhmeli, Emmanuel ^c   Mirelman, Andrew ^b   Dickson, Kim ^d   Adamu, Tigistu ^a   Cherutich, Peter ^e   Mahler, Hally ^a   Fimbo, Bennett ^f   Mavuso, Thembisile Khumalo ^g   Albertini, Jennifer ^c   Fitzgerald, Laura ^a   Bock, Naomi ^h   Reed, Jason ^h   Castor, Delivette ^c   Stanton, David ^c  

^a JHPIEGO   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^e MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Kenya)

^f Elderly and Children   (Tanzania)

^g Ministry of Health   (Switzerland)

^h CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CIRCUMCISION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; JOB PERFORMANCE; KENYA; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT SAFETY; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RESISTANCE MANAGEMENT; RETIREMENT; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; SWAZILAND; TANZANIA; UNEMPLOYMENT; VOLUNTARY MEDICAL MALE CIRCUMCISION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MALE; MANPOWER; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA, EASTERN; AFRICA, SOUTHERN; CIRCUMCISION, MALE; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PUBLIC HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82455175780     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001129     Document Type: Article

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