Incorrect beliefs about male circumcision and male-to-female HIV transmission risk in South Africa: Implications for prevention
| dc.creator | Maughan-Brown, Brendan | |
| dc.creator | Venkataramani, Atheendar | |
| dc.date | 2014-06-26T10:00:57Z | |
| dc.date | 2014-06-26T10:00:57Z | |
| dc.date | 2013 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-05-28T10:06:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-05-28T10:06:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-05-28 | |
| dc.description | Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) have shown that medical male circumcision (MC) substantially reduces the risk of female-to-male HIV transmission.1 Driven by this evidence base, a growing number of countries have adopted large-scale MC campaigns in an effort to prevent heterosexually acquired HIV in men. In South Africa, for example, >130,000 medical male circumcisions were performed during 2010.2Encouraging adoption of MC will require educating millions of men and women about its protective benefits. The success of these policies will depend critically on what people infer from prevention information and the actions they take as a result. | |
| dc.description | The authors would like to thank ikapadata for access to their opinion and belief poll data and Jan Schenk and Amrik Cooper for their patience and assistance in clarifying aspects of respondent selection and data capture. The authors also thank 3 anonymous referees for helpful comments and suggestions on previous versions of their article. The authors state that all errors are their own. Brendan Maughan-Brown is grateful for funding from the NRF Research Chair in Poverty and Inequality Research and the University Research Committee at the University of Cape Town for his Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. | |
| dc.identifier | Maughan-Brown, B., Venkataramani, A. (2013). Incorrect beliefs about male circumcision and male-to-female HIV transmission risk in South Africa: Implications for prevention, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 62(4): e121-e123. | |
| dc.identifier | http://journals.lww.com/jaids/Fulltext/2013/04010/Incorrect_Beliefs_About_Male_Circumcision_and.20.aspx | |
| dc.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/11090/743 | |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article DA - 2015-05-28 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - HIV prevention KW - Circumcision KW - Male-to-female HIV transmission LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 T1 - Incorrect beliefs about male circumcision and male-to-female HIV transmission risk in South Africa: Implications for prevention TI - Incorrect beliefs about male circumcision and male-to-female HIV transmission risk in South Africa: Implications for prevention UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11090/743 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11090/743 | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes | |
| dc.publisher.department | SALDRU | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Commerce | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.subject | HIV prevention | |
| dc.subject | Circumcision | |
| dc.subject | Male-to-female HIV transmission | |
| dc.title | Incorrect beliefs about male circumcision and male-to-female HIV transmission risk in South Africa: Implications for prevention | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Article | en_ZA |