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| Title |
Adult male circumcision as an intervention against HIV: An operational study of uptake in a South African community (ANRS 12126)
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Infectious Diseases, September 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2334-11-253 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Pascale Lissouba, Dirk Taljaard, Dino Rech, Veerle Dermaux-Msimang, Camille Legeai, David Lewis, Beverley Singh, Adrian Puren, Bertran Auvert |
| Abstract |
To evaluate the knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about adult male circumcision (AMC), assess the association of AMC with HIV incidence and prevalence, and estimate AMC uptake in a Southern African community. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 90 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| Tanzania, United Republic of | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 85 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 18 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 18 | 20% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 12% |
| Other | 7 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 6 | 7% |
| Other | 17 | 19% |
| Unknown | 13 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 30 | 33% |
| Social Sciences | 12 | 13% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 10% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 6% |
| Psychology | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 9 | 10% |
| Unknown | 21 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 August 2020.
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#7,335,210
of 23,849,058 outputs
Outputs from BMC Infectious Diseases
#2,357
of 7,926 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#42,205
of 133,365 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#29
of 92 outputs
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