The Cost of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in South Africa. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Given compelling evidence associating voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) with men's reduced HIV acquisition through heterosexual intercourse, South Africa in 2010 began scaling up VMMC.
Michel Tchuenche +6 more
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Global Public Health, 2023 As a public health intervention related to sexual transmission and involving genital surgery, male circumcision for HIV prevention necessarily relates to understandings of sexuality and gender, a relationship which public health campaign materials have ...
Sarah Rudrum
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Correction: The Cost of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in South Africa. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0160207.].
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Voluntary medical male circumcision: translating research into the rapid expansion of services in Kenya, 2008-2011. [PDF]
PLoS Medicine, 2011 Since the World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS recommended implementation of medical male circumcision (MC) as part of HIV prevention in areas with low MC and high HIV prevalence rates in 2007, the government of ...
Zebedee Mwandi +18 more
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Increasing voluntary medical male circumcision uptake among adult men in Tanzania [PDF]
AIDS, 2017 We evaluated a demand-creation intervention to increase voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) uptake among men aged 20-34 years in Tanzania, to maximise short-term impact on HIV incidence.A cluster randomized controlled trial stratified by region was conducted in 20 outreach sites in Njombe and Tabora regions.
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Women's roles in voluntary medical male circumcision in Nyanza Province, Kenya. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Women are an important audience for voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) communication messages so that they know that VMMC provides only partial protection against HIV.
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Behavior change pathways to voluntary medical male circumcision: narrative interviews with circumcision clients in Zambia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 As an HIV prevention strategy, the scale-up of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) is underway in 14 countries in Africa. For prevention impact, these countries must perform millions of circumcisions in adolescent and adult men before 2015 ...
Jessica E Price +6 more
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Costs and impacts of scaling up voluntary medical male circumcision in Tanzania. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 BACKGROUND:Given the proven effectiveness of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) in preventing the spread of HIV, Tanzania is scaling up VMMC as an HIV prevention strategy. This study will inform policymakers about the potential costs and benefits
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Male circumcision in the general population of Kisumu, Kenya: beliefs about protection, risk behaviors, HIV, and STIs. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 Using a population-based survey we examined the behaviors, beliefs, and HIV/HSV-2 serostatus of men and women in the traditionally non-circumcising community of Kisumu, Kenya prior to establishment of voluntary medical male circumcision services. A total
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Age targeting and scale-up of voluntary medical male circumcision in Mozambique.
PLoS ONE, 2019 BackgroundThe voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) program in Mozambique aimed to increase male circumcision (MC) coverage to 80 percent among males ages 10 to 49 by 2018.
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