Impact of Male Circumcision on the HIV Epidemic in Papua New Guinea: A Country with Extensive Foreskin Cutting Practices

• Richard T. Gray,

  Affiliation The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Andrew Vallely,

  Affiliations The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Sexual and Reproductive Health Unit, Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea

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• David P. Wilson,

  Affiliation The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• John Kaldor,

  Affiliation The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• David MacLaren,

  Affiliation School of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

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• Angela Kelly-Hanku,

  Affiliations Sexual and Reproductive Health Unit, Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea, International HIV Research Group, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Peter Siba,

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

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• John M. Murray ,

  * E-mail: J.Murray@unsw.edu.au

  Affiliation School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• on behalf of the Male Circumcision Acceptability and Impact Study (MCAIS) team