Females’ Peer Influence and Support for Adolescent Males Receiving Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Services

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Researchers explored the involvement of female adolescents in their male peers’ decisions about voluntary medical male circumcision and the postoperative wound healing process through focus group discussions and in-depth interviews with adolescents in South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. The results are presented in an article published in a special supplement to the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases about improving VMMC services for adolescents.

Type: Website
Year of publication: 2018
Resource type: Article
Languages: English