Provider attitudes toward the voluntary medical male circumcision scale-up in Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Mavhu, Webster ^a   Frade, Sasha ^b   Yongho, Ann Marie ^c   Farrell, Margaret ^c   Hatzold, Karin ^d   Machaku, Michael ^e   Onyango, Mathews ^f   Mugurungi, Owen ^g   Fimbo, Bennett ^h   Cherutich, Peter ⁱ   Rech, Dino ^b   Castor, Delivette ^j   Njeuhmeli, Emmanuel ^j   Bertrand, Jane T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b Centre for HIV and AIDS Prevention Studies   (South Africa)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^e JHPIEGO   (United States)

^f FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^g MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND CHILD CARE   (Zimbabwe)

^h MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE   (Tanzania)

ⁱ National AIDS/STD Control Programme   (Kenya)

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

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CIRCUMCISION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; KENYA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCALE UP; SOUTH AFRICA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TANZANIA; VOLUNTARY MEDICAL MALE CIRCUMCISION; VOLUNTEER; ZIMBABWE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CIRCUMCISION, MALE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOUTH AFRICA; TANZANIA; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 84900464029     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082911     Document Type: Article

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