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Cost Of Male Circumcision Prevents Wider Use In Uganda, Analysis Shows The cost of male circumcision is preventing it from being used more widely adopted in Uganda as a way to help prevent men from contracting HIV, according to analysis of several districts in the country conducted by Makerere University School of Public Health researchers and the Ministry of Health with technical support from Family Health International, the

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