Attitudes, perceptions and potential uptake of male circumcision among older men in Turkana County, Kenya using qualitative methods

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Macintyre, Kate ^a,b   Andrinopoulos, Katherine ^b   Moses, Natome ^c   Bornstein, Marta ^d   Ochieng, Athanasius ^e   Peacock, Erin ^b   Bertrand, Jane ^b  

^a Aidspan   (Kenya)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Oxfam GB ^*  (Kenya)

^d Learning for Action   (United States)

^e Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CIRCUMCISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYGIENE; INFECTION RISK; INTERVIEW; KENYA; MALE; MARRIAGE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL STIGMA; URBAN POPULATION; VOLUNTARY MEDICAL MALE CIRCUMCISION; VOLUNTEER; AGE; EDUCATION; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CIRCUMCISION, MALE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84900391203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083998     Document Type: Article

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