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“Man, what took you so long?” Social and individual factors affecting adult attendance at voluntary medical male circumcision services in Tanzania

Marya Plotkin, Delivette Castor, Hawa Mziray, Jan Küver, Ezekiel Mpuya, Paul James Luvanda, Augustino Hellar, Kelly Curran, Mainza Lukobo-Durell, Tigistu Adamu Ashengo and Hally Mahler
Global Health: Science and Practice March 2013, 1(1):108-116; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00037
Marya Plotkin
aJhpiego Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Delivette Castor
bU.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, USA
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Hawa Mziray
aJhpiego Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Jan Küver
cDepartment of Cultural Anthropology and Tourism, Tumaini University, Iringa, Tanzania
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Ezekiel Mpuya
dRegional Medical Office, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Iringa, Tanzania
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Paul James Luvanda
cDepartment of Cultural Anthropology and Tourism, Tumaini University, Iringa, Tanzania
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Augustino Hellar
aJhpiego Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Kelly Curran
eJhpiego, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
fJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Mainza Lukobo-Durell
eJhpiego, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Tigistu Adamu Ashengo
eJhpiego, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Hally Mahler
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vol. 1 no. 1 108-116
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-12-00037
PubMed 
25276521

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Global Health: Science and Practice
Online ISSN 
2169-575X
History 
  • Received: September 18, 2012
  • Accepted: December 12, 2012
  • Published online March 21, 2013.

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© Plotkin et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly cited. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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  1. Marya Plotkina⇑,
  2. Delivette Castorb,
  3. Hawa Mziraya,
  4. Jan Küverc,
  5. Ezekiel Mpuyad,
  6. Paul James Luvandac,
  7. Augustino Hellara,
  8. Kelly Currane,f,
  9. Mainza Lukobo-Durelle,
  10. Tigistu Adamu Ashengoe,f,
  11. Hally Mahlera
  1. aJhpiego Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
  2. bU.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, USA
  3. cDepartment of Cultural Anthropology and Tourism, Tumaini University, Iringa, Tanzania
  4. dRegional Medical Office, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Iringa, Tanzania
  5. eJhpiego, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  6. fJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  1. Correspondence to Marya Plotkin (mplotkin{at}jhpiego.net)
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