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ReviewJournal of public health in Africa2011

Exposé of misleading claims that male circumcision will increase HIV infections in Africa.

Brian J Morris, Jake H Waskett, Ronald H Gray, Daniel T Halperin, Richard Wamai, Bertran Auvert, Jeffrey D Klausner

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Review in Journal of public health in Africa, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Brian J MorrisSchool of Medical Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Jake H WaskettCircumcision Independent Reference and Commentary Service, Radcliffe, Manchester, UK.
Ronald H GrayBloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Daniel T HalperinDepartment of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Richard WamaiDepartment of African-American Studies, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
Bertran AuvertINSERM-UVSQ U1018, Villejuif, France.
Jeffrey D KlausnerDivisions of AIDS & Infectious Diseases, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Harvard University · USInserm · FRJohns Hopkins University · USNortheastern University · USUniversity of California System · USUniversity of Sydney · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite over two decades of extensive research showing that male circumcision protects against heterosexual acquisition of HIV in men, and that includes findings from large randomized controlled trials leading to acceptance by the WHO/UNAIDS and the Cochrane Committee, opponents of circumcision continue to generate specious arguments to the contrary. In a recent issue of the

Indexed as

circumcisionepidemiologyevidence-based medicine.HIV

Identifiers

PMID28299069
PMCPMC5345501
OpenAlexW2162367727

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Registered trials

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