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Service delivery interventions to increase uptake of voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention: A systematic review. [PDF]

, 2020
BackgroundVoluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) remains an essential component of combination HIV prevention services, particularly in priority countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Atkins, Kaitlyn, Baggaley, Rachel, Fonner, Virginia A, Kennedy, Caitlin E, O'Reilly, Kevin R, Rutherford, George W, Samuelson, Julia, Sweat, Michael D, Yeh, Ping Teresa   +8 more
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Communication-related factors influencing the uptake of voluntary medical male circumcision among men in Lilongwe Urban, Malawi

Cogent Medicine, 2021
:  Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) has been promoted as an effective biomedical intervention in the reduction of the risk of new HIV and STI infections. The government of Malawi and its stakeholders including the World Health Organization have
Peter Mhagama, Patrick Makono, Chimwemwe Tsitsi   +2 more
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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, Eurica Palmer, Vibhuti Haté, Ananthy Thambinayagam, Dayanund Loykissoonlal, Emmanuel Njeuhmeli, Steven Forsythe   +6 more
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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
Matthew Westercamp, Robert C Bailey, Elizabeth A Bukusi, Michele Montandon, Zachary Kwena, Craig R Cohen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Complications of high volume circumcision: glans amputation in adolescents; a case report

BMC Urology, 2019
Background The past four years has seen a rapid roll-out of male medical circumcision services in South Africa in response to clinical trials showing circumcision prevents HIV acquisition in heterosexual men.
Mmatsie Manentsa, Hilary Mukudu, Nthabiseng Koloane, Ashley Ringane, Eleanor Matta, Neil A. Martinson, Limakatso Lebina   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Knowledge about male circumcision and perception of risk for HIV among youth in Harare, Zimbabwe

Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 2019
Background: Male circumcision will require high uptake among previously non-circumcising countries to realise the impact of circumcising in preventing HIV.
Kudzaishe Mangombe, Ishmael Kalule-Sabiti   +1 more
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Voluntary medical male circumcision and HIV infection among men who have sex with men: Implications from a systematic review

SAGE Open Medicine, 2019
Background: With the rapidly-increased HIV epidemic among men who have sex with men worldwide, the effectiveness of voluntary medical male circumcision as the tool of HIV prevention still remains undetermined.
Chen Zhang, Han-Zhu Qian, Yu Liu, Sten H Vermund   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A case study for a psychographic-behavioral segmentation approach for targeted demand generation in voluntary medical male circumcision

eLife, 2017
Public health programs are starting to recognize the need to move beyond a one-size-fits-all approach in demand generation, and instead tailor interventions to the heterogeneity underlying human decision making.
Sema K Sgaier, Maria Eletskaya, Elisabeth Engl, Owen Mugurungi, Bushimbwa Tambatamba, Gertrude Ncube, Sinokuthemba Xaba, Alice Nanga, Svetlana Gogolina, Patrick Odawo, Sehlulekile Gumede-Moyo, Steve Kretschmer   +11 more
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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.
Michele Lanham, Kelly L L'engle, Mores Loolpapit, Isaac Onyango Oguma   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Increasing voluntary medical male circumcision uptake among adult men in Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2017
OBJECTIVE: 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.
Changalucha, John, Grund, Jonathan M, Hayes, Richard J, Kuringe, Evodius, Larke, Natasha, Lija, Gissenge, Mahler, Hally, Makokha, Maende, Mshana, Gerry, Plotkin, Marya, Terris-Prestholt, Fern, VMMC-Tanzania Study Group, Wambura, Mwita, Weiss, Helen A   +13 more
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