Costs and impacts of scaling up voluntary medical male circumcision in Tanzania

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Menon, Veena ^a,b   Gold, Elizabeth ^c   Godbole, Ramona ^a,b,d   Castor, Delivette ^d   Mahler, Hally ^c   Forsythe, Steven ^a,e   Ally, Mariam ^f   Njeuhmeli, Emmanuel ^d  

^a HPI Costing Task Order   (United States)

^b Palladium Group   (United States)

^c JHPIEGO   (United States)

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

^e AVENIR HEALTH   (United States)

^f MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CIRCUMCISION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; SCALE UP; TANZANIA; VOLUNTARY MEDICAL MALE CIRCUMCISION; VOLUNTEER; ECONOMICS; HIV INFECTIONS; MALE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE;

CIRCUMCISION, MALE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; TANZANIA;

EID: 84900396899     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083925     Document Type: Article

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