About the Authors

Richard T. Gray

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

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

David P. Wilson

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

John Kaldor

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

David MacLaren

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

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

Peter Siba

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

John M. Murray

J.Murray@unsw.edu.au

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

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMM RTG AV DPW JK DM AK-H PS. Analyzed the data: JMM RTG DPW AV DM AK-H. Wrote the paper: JMM RTG AV DM AK-H. Constructed the mathematical model: JMM RTG DPW. Contributed mathematical analysis methods: JMM RTG DPW.