Prevention of Viral Sexually Transmitted Infections — Foreskin at the Forefront  

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Golden, Matthew R. ; Wasserheit, Judith N.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 360 no. 13 (Mar. 2009), page 1349.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: N08.K.2009.02 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Three landmark randomized, controlled trials conducted in South Africa, Uganda, and Kenya from 2005 through 2007 demonstrated that adult male circumcision reduced the acquisition of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by 50 to 60%.1,2,3 Complications associated with the procedure were rare and almost uniformly minor.4 These findings were largely consistent with those of observational and ecologic studies in which adult male circumcision was associated with a lower HIV risk at both individual and population levels,5 and mathematical models suggest that widespread circumcision could substantially reduce the HIV epidemic in high-prevalence heterosexual populations.6 In 2007, the World Health Organization and the United . . .

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