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| Title |
Learning That Circumcision Is Protective against HIV: Risk Compensation among Men and Women in Cape Town, South Africa
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, July 2012
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0040753 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Brendan Maughan-Brown, Atheendar S. Venkataramani |
| Abstract |
We examined whether knowledge of the HIV-protective benefits of male circumcision (MC) led to risk compensating behavior in a traditionally circumcising population in South Africa. We extend the current literature by examining risk compensation among women, which has hitherto been unexplored. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 55 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| South Africa | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 53 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 11 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 7% |
| Other | 9 | 16% |
| Unknown | 7 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 18 | 33% |
| Social Sciences | 10 | 18% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 7% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 7 | 13% |
| Unknown | 11 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 27 July 2018.
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#7,990,713
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#107,148
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#55,200
of 178,253 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#1,523
of 4,038 outputs
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