Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 15, Issue 29 , Pages 68-74 , May 2007

Roundtable: Sexually Transmitted Infection Management, Safer Sex Promotion and Voluntary HIV Counselling and Testing in the Male Circumcision Trial, Rakai, Uganda

  • Joseph KB Matovu

      Affiliations

    • Rakai Health Sciences Programme, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Rakai, Uganda
    • ,
  • Victor Ssempijja

      Affiliations

    • Rakai Health Sciences Programme, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Rakai, Uganda
    • ,
  • Fredrick E Makumbi

      Affiliations

    • Rakai Health Sciences Programme, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Rakai, Uganda
    • Institute of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
    • ,
  • Ronald H Gray

      Affiliations

    • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore MD, USA
    • ,
  • Godfrey Kigozi

      Affiliations

    • Rakai Health Sciences Programme, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Rakai, Uganda
    • ,
  • Fred Nalugoda

      Affiliations

    • Rakai Health Sciences Programme, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Rakai, Uganda
    • ,
  • David Serwadda

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
    • ,
  • Maria J Wawer

      Affiliations

    • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore MD, USA

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  2. Bailey RC, Moses S, Parker CB, et al. Male circumcision for HIV prevention in young men in Kisumu, Kenya: a randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2007;369:643–656
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  4. Gray RH, Li X, Kigozi G, Serwadda D, et al. The impact of male circumcision on HIV incidence and cost per infection prevented. A stochastic simulation model from Rakai, Uganda. AIDS. 2007;21:845–850
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  8. Matovu JK, Kigozi G, Nalugoda F, et al. The Rakai Project counselling programme experience. Tropical Medicine & International Health. 2002;7(12):1064–1067
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PII: S0968-8080(07)29306-1

doi: 10.1016/S0968-8080(07)29306-1

Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 15, Issue 29 , Pages 68-74 , May 2007

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