Estimates of the prevalence of male circumcision in sub-Saharan Africa from 2010–2023—A systematic review and meta-analysis

Basant Elsayed; Mohamed Elmarasi; Ruvarashe J. Madzime; Lovemore Mapahla; Menatalla M. S. ElBadway; Tawanda Chivese

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0298387

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Estimates of the prevalence of male circumcision in sub-Saharan Africa from 2010–2023—A systematic review and meta-analysis

Basant Elsayed ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Basant Elsayed, Mohamed Elmarasi

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

Affiliation Department of Population Medicine, College of Medicine, QU Health, Qatar University, Qatar

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1411-9462

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Mohamed Elmarasi ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Basant Elsayed, Mohamed Elmarasi

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

Affiliation Department of Population Medicine, College of Medicine, QU Health, Qatar University, Qatar

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7845-4828

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Ruvarashe J. Madzime,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Global Health, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
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Lovemore Mapahla,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Global Health, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0146-3299

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Menatalla M. S. ElBadway,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Population Medicine, College of Medicine, QU Health, Qatar University, Qatar
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Tawanda Chivese

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

* E-mail: tchivese@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Population Medicine, College of Medicine, QU Health, Qatar University, Qatar

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6621-6144

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Estimates of the prevalence of male circumcision in sub-Saharan Africa from 2010–2023—A systematic review and meta-analysis

Basant Elsayed,
Mohamed Elmarasi,
Ruvarashe J. Madzime,
Lovemore Mapahla,
Menatalla M. S. ElBadway,
Tawanda Chivese

Published: March 13, 2024
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0298387

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