Print media reporting of male circumcision for preventing HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa
Alberta L Wang, William Duke & George P Schmid
Volume 87, Number 8, August 2009, 595-603
Table 1. Main and secondary themes surrounding male circumcision in sub-Saharan Africa rendered in the English-, French- and Portuguese-language print media from 28 March 2007 to 30 June 2008
| Theme | Main |
Secondary |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No.a | % b | No.a | % b | ||
| 1. MC as a strategy for preventing HIV infection in men | 152 | 69.4 | 36 | 7.2 | |
| 2. RCTs and scientific studies | 11 | 5.0 | 74 | 14.7 | |
| 3. Sociocultural acceptability | 9 | 4.1 | 28 | 5.6 | |
| 4. Effect on women | 9 | 4.1 | 16 | 3.2 | |
| 5. Risks | 7 | 3.2 | 30 | 6.0 | |
| 6. Funding of circumcision programmes | 7 | 3.2 | 12 | 2.4 | |
| 7. MC regulation | 5 | 2.3 | 14 | 2.8 | |
| 8. Supply and availability | 4 | 1.8 | 30 | 6.0 | |
| 9. Changes in sexual behaviour | 3 | 1.4 | 30 | 6.0 | |
| 10. Demand | 3 | 1.4 | 9 | 1.8 | |
| 11. Males seeking males | 2 | 0.9 | 7 | 1.4 | |
| 12. HIV infection | 1 | 0.5 | 53 | 10.5 | |
| 13. Traditional circumcision | 1 | 0.5 | 9 | 1.8 | |
| 14. Cost of circumcision programmes | 1 | 0.5 | 6 | 1.2 | |
| 15. Impact on HIV epidemic | 0 | 0.0 | 64 | 12.7 | |
| 16. Benefits | 0 | 0.0 | 62 | 12.3 | |
| 17. Sexually transmitted infections | 0 | 0.0 | 6 | 1.2 | |
| 18. Neonatal circumcision | 0 | 0.0 | 5 | 1.0 | |
| 19. Ethics | 0 | 0.0 | 4 | 0.8 | |
| 20. MC methods | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.4 | |
| 21. MC instruments | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Other | 4 | 1.8 | 6 | 1.2 | |
| Total | 219 | 100.0c | 503d | 100.0c | |
MC, male circumcision; RCT, randomized controlled trial.
a This represents the number of articles that contained the theme.
b This represents the percentage of articles that contained the theme.
c Due to rounding, this does not add up to exactly 100%.
d This adds up to more than 100% because the coding procedure enabled up to three entries for secondary theme per article.