The PrePex Device Is Unlikely to Achieve Cost-Savings Compared to the Forceps-Guided Method in Male Circumcision Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Obiero, Walter ^a   Young, Marisa R ^b   Bailey, Robert C ^a,b  

^a NYANZA REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SOCIETY   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CIRCUMCISION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COST MINIMIZATION ANALYSIS; FORCEPS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KENYA; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL DEVICE; PHIMOSIS; PREPUCE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CHILD; CIRCUMCISION, MALE; COST SAVINGS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 84872649122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053380     Document Type: Article

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