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| Title |
Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision: A Cross-Sectional Study Comparing Circumcision Self-Report and Physical Examination Findings in Lesotho
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, November 2011
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0027561 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Anne Goldzier Thomas, Bonnie Robin Tran, Marcus Cranston, Malerato Cecilia Brown, Rajiv Kumar, Matsotetsi Tlelai |
| Abstract |
Overwhelming evidence, including three clinical trials, shows that male circumcision (MC) reduces the risk of HIV infection among men. However, data from recent Lesotho Demographic and Health Surveys do not demonstrate MC to be protective against HIV. These contradictory findings could partially be due to inaccurate self-reported MC status used to estimate MC prevalence. This study describes MC characteristics among men applying for Lesotho Defence Force recruitment and seeks to assess MC self-reported accuracy through comparison with physical-examination-based data. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 3 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 68 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 4% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 64 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 22 | 32% |
| Researcher | 10 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 15% |
| Other | 4 | 6% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 6% |
| Other | 13 | 19% |
| Unknown | 5 | 7% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 25 | 37% |
| Social Sciences | 10 | 15% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 8 | 12% |
| Psychology | 3 | 4% |
| Arts and Humanities | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 11 | 16% |
| Unknown | 8 | 12% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. 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 06 June 2016.
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#1,140,666
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Outputs from PLOS ONE
#15,277
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#7,620
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Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#159
of 2,793 outputs
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