Open AccessAdult Male Circumcision Device for Use in Clinical Settings
Author(s) -
Paul F. McAlpine,
Lai Yu Leo Tse,
Anupinder S. Dulat,
Christopher S. McAlpine,
Amir Sabet Sarvestani,
Kathleen H. Sienko
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of medical devices
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.242
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1932-619X
pISSN - 1932-6181
DOI - 10.1115/1.3590368
Subject(s) - male circumcision , economic shortage , task (project management) , health care , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , medicine , intervention (counseling) , scale (ratio) , human resources , nursing , health services , family medicine , population , engineering , environmental health , political science , government (linguistics) , linguistics , philosophy , physics , systems engineering , quantum mechanics , law
Sub-Saharan Africa is the region most heavily affected by HIV, ccounting for 67% of HIV positive cases and 72% of AIDS eaths globally in 2007. Public health officials believe adult male ircumcision can be an effective HIV prevention intervention and ecommend task shifting as an approach to increase the volume of ale circumcisions performed in sub-Saharan Africa. Current cale up complications in sub-Saharan Africa include high proceural cost, clinical tools complexity, trained human resources
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