Summary table of correlation of male circumcision status and HIV acquisition.

RCT: randomised controlled trial. P. Cohort: prospective cohort study.

*Person-years of observation.

#Risk ratio is incidence rate (or hazard) ratios for RCT and Cohort shown.

&Confidence interval.

○Hazard ratio adjusted for sexual behaviour that increased slightly in the intervention group, condom use, and health-seeking behavior.

◎Hazard ratio adjusted for non-adherence to treatment and excluding four men found to be seropositive at enrolment.

⊕Rate ratio adjusted for age, marital status, and sexual risk behaviours at enrolment.

♂Adjusting factors were not achieved.

⊙Rate ratio adjusted for age, marital status, sexual partners in past year, sex for money, condom use and syphilis.

♀Rate ratio adjusted for Hindu/non-Hindu religion, level of education, living with family; and time-dependent covariates: calendar year,age group, marital status, multiple sex partners, number of female sex-worker partners (0, 1, 2–9, or10~), condom use, tattoos, and medical injections.

☆Hazard Ratio adjusted for sociodemographic characteristics at the last trial visit and time-dependent sexual behaviors during posttrial follow up.

※Hazard ratio adjusted for age and condom useage.

▽Rate ratio adjusted for age, marital status, gonorrhea/candidiasis at baseline, number of sexual partners and alcohol consumption during the follow-up period.

◇Hazard ratio adjusted for age, age at coital debut, contraceptive method, husband′s employment status, education, number of partners in past 3 months, and a product-interaction term between time and number of partners in past 3 months.

§Hazard ratio adjusted for male partner HIV-1 plasma viral load and censored at male partner antiretroviral therapy initiation.

№Dates were not available.

Summary table of correlation of male circumcision status and HIV acquisition.