ArticleAIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education2020
The Impact of Male Partner Circumcision on Women's Health Outcomes.
Article in AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Male circumcision uptake and misperceived norms about male circumcision: Cross-sectional, population-based study in rural Uganda.Journal of global health · 2023Article
- The Effects of Medical Male Circumcision on Female Partners' Sexual and Reproductive Health.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2022Review
- Does Male Circumcision Reduce Women's Risk of Sexually Transmitted Infections, Cervical Cancer, and Associated Conditions?Frontiers in public health · 2019Article
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Abstract
Medical male circumcision is a proven method of HIV risk reduction in men with no known direct benefit to women. We investigated the benefit of partner circumcision on women's health. We conducted a secondary analysis of 5,029 women enrolled in the Vaginal and Oral Interventions to Control the Epidemic trial across 15 African sites, to look at the impact of partner circumcision status on sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy, frequency of sex, and condom use in women. Of 4,982 participants with a baseline response, 31% had circumcised partners. Women with circumcised partners had a significantly reduced risk of syphilis acquisition, hazard ratio 0.51 (0.26, 1.00),
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