ArticleBMJ global health2019
Does voluntary medical male circumcision protect against sexually transmitted infections among men and women in real-world scale-up settings? Findings of a household survey in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Article in BMJ global health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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
15 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Clinical Manifestations and Associated Disease States withOpen forum infectious diseases · 2026Article
- PrEP Awareness and Willingness to use Oral PrEP Among Males ≥ 18 Years Attending VMMC Services in Gauteng, South Africa.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- Protective effect of voluntary medical male circumcision against sexually transmitted infections among adult men in Malawi: insights from observational data.Frontiers in public health · 2026Observational
- The neovaginal microbiota, symptoms, and local immune correlates in transfeminine individuals with penile inversion vaginoplasty.Cell reports · 2025Article
- Men undergoing medical circumcision at a community health centre: Knowledge and attitudes.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2025Article
- Nurses' perspectives on user-friendly self-sampling interventions for diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections among young women in eThekwini district municipality: a nominal group technique.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B virus infection and male circumcision in five Sub-Saharan African countries: Findings from the Population-based HIV Impact Assessment surveys, 2015-2019.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- The Effects of Medical Male Circumcision on Female Partners' Sexual and Reproductive Health.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2022Review
- Protocol: Mapping social networks, social influence and sexual health among youth in rural KwaZulu-Natal, the Sixhumene cohort study.Wellcome open research · 2022Article
- HIV incidence and associated risk factors in adolescent girls and young women in South Africa: A population-based cohort study.PloS one · 2022Article
- Association of medical male circumcision and sexually transmitted infections in a population-based study using targeted maximum likelihood estimation.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Large age shifts in HIV-1 incidence patterns in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Current critiques of the WHO policy on female genital mutilation.International journal of impotence research · 2021Review
- Effects of HIV voluntary medical male circumcision programs on sexually transmitted infections.Current opinion in infectious diseases · 2021Review
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.
Funding
Abstract
introductionMale circumcision (MC) confers partial protection to men against HIV and, in research settings, some sexually transmitted infections (STIs). It is also associated with protection from some STIs among female partners. However, real-world data on changes in STI transmission associated with large-scale public African medical male circumcision (MMC) conducted for HIV prevention are lacking and would improve estimates of the health impact of MMC.
methodsThe HIV Incidence Provincial Surveillance System is a community-based surveillance platform for HIV prevalence, incidence and intervention coverage trends in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. HIPPS collected cross-sectional self-reported data on circumcision status (from men), partner circumcision status for past three partners (from women) and demographic characteristics and behavioural risk factors; and tested participants for HIV, herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), syphilis, hepatitis B,
resultsAmong men, MMC had a protective association with HSV-2 (OR 0.66, 95% CI 0.50 to 0.86), hepatitis B (OR 0.53, 95% CI 0.30 to 0.95), HIV (OR 0.50, 95% CI 0.38 to 0.65) and
conclusionThese real-world data, supporting protective associations between MMC conducted for HIV prevention and STIs in men and women, can help clarify the full impact of MMC and support a role in broader sexual health programming.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.