Re-establishing safer medical-circumcision-integrated initiation ceremonies for HIV prevention in a rural setting in Papua New Guinea. A multi-method acceptability study

• Clement Morris Manineng ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: clement.manineng@my.jcu.edu.au

  Affiliations College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Divine Word University, Madang, Papua New Guinea

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3055-0276

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• David MacLaren,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia

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• Maggie Baigry,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Divine Word University, Madang, Papua New Guinea

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• Emil Trowalle,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation East Sepik Provincial AIDS Committee, Wewak, Papua New Guinea

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• Reinhold Muller,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia

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• Andrew Vallely,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sexual and Reproductive Health Unit, Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Papua New Guinea

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• Patrick Gesch,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Divine Word University, Madang, Papua New Guinea

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• Francis Hombhanje,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Divine Word University, Madang, Papua New Guinea

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• William John McBride

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia

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