Sexually Transmitted Infections and Male Circumcision: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Table 11

Studies of the association between circumcision status and the prevalence of chancroid.

Study	Intact +ve/−ve	Circumcised +ve/−ve	Odds ratio	95% confidence interval	Exact odds ratio	Exact confidence interval
Hand; black	60/663	18/104	0.57	0.30–0.92	0.5234	0.2908–0.9807
Hand; white	55/732	5/200	3.01	1.19–7.61	3.0030	1.1890–9.7420
Hart [69]	NA	NA	4.76	3.45–7.14	4.76	3.44–7.14
Lavreys	10/46	91/259	0.62	0.30–1.28	0.6194	0.2674–1.3100
Lloyd	9/372	1/117	2.83	0.35–22.58	2.8263	0.3846–125.1128
Rakwar	NA	NA	0.82	0.50–1.16	0.82	0.50–1.16
Random effects summary effect:					1.33	0.52–1.33

Heterogeneity chi-square (df=5) was 59.71 (𝑃<.0001).