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Comment
. 2005 Nov;2(11):e393.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020393. Epub 2005 Oct 25.

Does male circumcision prevent HIV infection?

Nandi Siegfried  1
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Does male circumcision prevent HIV infection?

Nandi Siegfried. PLoS Med. 2005 Nov.

Abstract

Siegfried discusses the first reported randomized controlled trial of whether circumcision protects against HIV, published in PLoS Medicine.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing Interests: NS is the lead author of a Cochrane systematic review of observational studies of this topic and has advocated for the need for randomised trials to assess the effects of male circumcision. She has no financial or other competing interests in male circumcision.

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  • A landmark paper in HIV research?
    [No authors listed] [No authors listed] PLoS Med. 2005 Nov;2(11):e293. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020293. Epub 2005 Oct 25. PLoS Med. 2005. PMID: 16231994 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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