Prevention of viral sexually transmitted infections--foreskin at the forefront.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Critical evaluation of arguments opposing male circumcision: A systematic review.Journal of evidence-based medicine · 2019
   Pooled it
2. Randomized controlled trials of interventions to prevent sexually transmitted infections: learning from the past to plan for the future.Epidemiologic reviews · 2010
   Pooled it
3. Male circumcision for protection against HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa: the evidence in favour justifies the implementation now in progress.Global public health · 2015
   Article
4. Illumination of murine gammaherpesvirus-68 cycle reveals a sexual transmission route from females to males in laboratory mice.PLoS pathogens · 2013
   Article
5. Circumcision and risk of sexually transmissible infections in a community-based cohort of HIV-negative homosexual men in Sydney, Australia.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2009
   Article

Corrections and comments

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  Male circumcision for the prevention of HSV-2 and HPV infections and syphilis.2009

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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