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Global Public Health
An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice
Volume 10, 2015 - Issue 5-6: Circumcision and HIV prevention: Emerging debates in science, policies and programs
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Male circumcision for protection against HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa: The evidence in favour justifies the implementation now in progress

Richard G. WamaiDepartment of African American Studies, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Brian J. MorrisSchool of Medical Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Robert C. BaileyDivision of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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Jeffrey D. KlausnerDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Mackenzie N. BoedickerCollege of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
Pages 639-666 | Received 17 Jan 2014, Accepted 13 Aug 2014, Published online: 23 Jan 2015

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Mpho Keetile. (2020) An assessment of sexual risk behaviours among circumcised and uncircumcised men before and after the implementation of the safe male circumcision programme in Botswana. AIDS Care 32:12, pages 1594-1601.
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Robert S. Van Howe. (2018) Expertise or ideology? A response to Morris et al. 2016, ‘Circumcision is a primary preventive against HIV infection: Critique of a contrary meta-regression analysis by Van Howe’. Global Public Health 13:12, pages 1900-1918.
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Brian J. Morris, Gia Barboza, Richard G. Wamai & John N. Krieger. (2018) Circumcision is a primary preventive against HIV infection: Critique of a contrary meta-regression analysis by Van Howe. Global Public Health 13:12, pages 1889-1899.
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Brian J. Morris, Richard G. Wamai, John N. Krieger, Joya Banerjee & Jeffrey D. Klausner. (2017) Male circumcision to prevent syphilis in 1855 and HIV in 1986 is supported by the accumulated scientific evidence to 2015: Response to Darby. Global Public Health 12:10, pages 1315-1333.
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Martin Mbonye, Monica Kuteesa, Janet Seeley, Jonathan Levin, Helen Weiss & Anatoli Kamali. (2016) Voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention in fishing communities in Uganda: the influence of local beliefs and practice. African Journal of AIDS Research 15:3, pages 211-218.
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Richard G. Wamai, Brian J. Morris, Robert C. Bailey, Jeffrey D. Klausner & Mackenzie N. Boedicker. (2015) Debating male circumcision for HIV prevention: A one-sided argument does not represent a legitimate ‘controversy’ analysis – Reply to de Camargo et al.. Global Public Health 10:5-6, pages 672-678.
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Kenneth Rochel de Camargo$suffix/text()$suffix/text(), André Luiz de Oliveira Mendonça, Christophe Perrey & Alain Giami. (2015) Making the circumcision controversy controversial: Going meta and taking aim at the messenger(s): Reply to Wamai et al.. Global Public Health 10:5-6, pages 667-671.
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Jillian C. Pintye, Kathleen E. Wirth, Conrad Ntsuape, Nora J. Kleinman, Lisa Spees, Bazghina-werq Semo, Shreshth Mawandia & Jenny Ledikwe. (2020) Sexual function after voluntary medical male circumcision for human immunodeficiency virus prevention: Results from a programmatic delivery setting in Botswana. Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine 21:1.
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Brian J Morris, Stephen Moreton & John N Krieger. (2019) Critical evaluation of arguments opposing male circumcision: A systematic review. Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine 12:4, pages 263-290.
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Brian J. Morris, Gia Barboza, Richard G. Wamai & John N. Krieger. (2017) Expertise and Ideology in Statistical Evaluation of Circumcision for Protection against HIV Infection. World Journal of AIDS 07:03, pages 179-203.
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Beth E. Rivin, Douglas S. Diekema, Anna C. Mastroianni, John N. Krieger, Jeffrey D. Klausner & Brian J. Morris. (2016) Critical Evaluation of Adler’s Challenge to the cdc’s Male Circumcision Recommendations. The International Journal of Children’s Rights 24:2, pages 265-303.
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