Could Circumcision of HIV-Positive Males Benefit Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Programs in Africa? Mathematical Modeling Analysis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 The epidemiological and programmatic implications of inclusivity of HIV-positive males in voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) programs are uncertain.
Susanne F Awad +10 more
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A Reevaluation of the Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Scale-Up Plan in Zimbabwe.
PLoS ONE, 2015 BackgroundThe voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) program in Zimbabwe aims to circumcise 80% of males aged 13-29 by 2017. We assessed the impact of actual VMMC scale-up to date and evaluated the impact of potential alterations to the program to ...
Susanne F Awad +8 more
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Voluntary medical male circumcision: modeling the impact and cost of expanding male circumcision for HIV prevention in eastern and southern Africa. [PDF]
PLoS Medicine, 2011 BACKGROUND: There is strong evidence showing that voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) reduces HIV incidence in men. To inform the VMMC policies and goals of 13 priority countries in eastern and southern Africa, we estimate the impact and cost of ...
Emmanuel Njeuhmeli +10 more
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Advertising for Demand Creation for Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision [PDF]
JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2016 Objective:To measure the effects of information, a challenge, and a conditional cash transfer on take-up of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC).Design:A randomized, controlled experiment with 4000 postcard recipients in Soweto (Johannesburg), South Africa.Methods:We examined differences in take-up of several decisions in the VMMC cascade between
Nicholas Wilson +3 more
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Early Resumption of Sex following Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision amongst School-Going Males. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Voluntary medical male circumcision is an integral part of the South African government's response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic. Following circumcision, it is recommended that patients abstain from sexual activity for six weeks, as sex may increase the ...
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Geospatial assessment of the voluntary medical male circumcision programme in Tanzania, 2011–2016 [PDF]
BMJ Global Health, 2019 Introduction Tanzania is one of the 14 priority countries in sub-Saharan Africa scaling up voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) for HIV prevention.
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Voluntary male medical circumcision - Dan Ncayiyana responds
South African Medical Journal, 2012 This response forms part of a debate related to the editorial by Professor Ncayiyana concerning the national circumcision programme in South Africa (S Afr Med J 2011;101:775-777). Other articles in this debate: Kessinger and Millard. S Afr Med J 2012;102(3):123-124. Venter et al. S Afr Med J 2012;102(3):124-125.
Daniel J Ncayiyana
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Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision: Strategies for Meeting the Human Resource Needs of Scale-Up in Southern and Eastern Africa [PDF]
, 2011 Kelly Curran and colleagues conducted a program review to identify human resource approaches that are being used to improve voluntary medical male circumcision volume and efficiency, identifying several innovative responses to human resource ...
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Understanding the Evolving Role of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision as a Public Health Strategy in Eastern and Southern Africa: Opportunities and Challenges. [PDF]
Curr HIV/AIDS Rep, 2022 Bershteyn A +6 more
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Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision to Reduce HIV Acquisition and Transmission. [PDF]
Curr HIV/AIDS Rep, 2022 This commentary introduces the special Global Health Section on the state of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) programs and current knowledge as to role of VMMC prevention of HIV infection acquisition in men and, indirectly, women.Since the first clinical trial of VMMC in Africa was published in 2005, implementation of programs has depended on
Vermund SH.
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