Male Circumcision and HIV Transmission; What Do We Know?

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Published in Open AIDS J on September 30, 2014

Authors

Parana H M Jayathunge1, William J H McBride1, David MacLaren1, John Kaldor2, Andrew Vallely2, Stuart Turville2

Author Affiliations

1: College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
2: The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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