Lessons learned from scale-up of voluntary medical male circumcision focusing on adolescents: Benefits, challenges, and potential opportunities for linkages with adolescent HIV, sexual, and reproductive health services

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 66, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2014, Pages

  Njeuhmeli, Emmanuel ^a   Hatzold, Karin ^b   Gold, Elizabeth ^c   Mahler, Hally ^d   Kripke, Katharine ^e   Seifert Ahanda, Kim ^a   Castor, Delivette ^a   Mavhu, Webster ^f   Mugurungi, Owen ^g   Ncube, Gertrude ^g   Koshuma, Sifuni ^h   Sgaier, Sema ^i,j   Conly, Shanti R ^i,j   Kasedde, Susan ^k  

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

^b POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JHPIEGO   (United States)

^e Futures Institute   (United States)

^f CENTRE FOR SEXUAL HEALTH AND HIV AIDS RESEARCH   (Zimbabwe)

^g MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND CHILD CARE   (Zimbabwe)

^h MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE   (Tanzania)

ⁱ BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^k UNITED NATIONS   (United States)

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Author keywords

adolescent; circumcision; health; HIV

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; ADOLESCENT HEALTH; ADULT; ARTICLE; CIRCUMCISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RWANDA; SCALE UP; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; SEXUAL ABSTINENCE; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; VOLUNTARY PROGRAM; ZIMBABWE;

ADOLESCENT; CIRCUMCISION, MALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84902521751     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: 10779450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000000179     Document Type: Article

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