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| Title |
Attitudes, Perceptions and Potential Uptake of Male Circumcision among Older Men in Turkana County, Kenya Using Qualitative Methods
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, May 2014
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0083998 |
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| Authors |
Kate Macintyre, Katherine Andrinopoulos, Natome Moses, Marta Bornstein, Athanasius Ochieng, Erin Peacock, Jane Bertrand |
| Abstract |
In many communities, older men (i.e., over 25 years of age) have not come forward for Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) services. Reasons for low demand among this group of men are not well understood, and may vary across geographic and cultural contexts. This paper examines the facilitators and barriers to VMMC demand in Turkana County, Kenya, with a focus on older men. This is one of the regions targeted by the VMMC program in Kenya because the Turkana ethnic group does not traditionally circumcise, and the rates of HIV and STD transmission are high. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 50% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 13% |
| Canada | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 2 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 63% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 25% |
| Scientists | 1 | 13% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 108 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 107 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 25 | 23% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 13% |
| Researcher | 12 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 5% |
| Other | 16 | 15% |
| Unknown | 28 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 23 | 21% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 16 | 15% |
| Social Sciences | 13 | 12% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 7 | 6% |
| Psychology | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 11 | 10% |
| Unknown | 34 | 31% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 42. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 August 2020.
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