Educating religious leaders to create demand for medical male circumcision
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Educating religious leaders to create demand for medical male circumcision
Incident HIV infections refl ect the inadequacy of prevention strategies, and the failure to adequately use proven eff ective interventions. Following compelling evidence from three independent community trials in South Africa, Uganda, and Kenya, WHO and the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) recommended that voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) should be part of a comprehensive HIV ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(17)30318-5