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 +1 more
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Sustaining Gains Made in Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision [PDF]
Global Health: Science and Practice, 2016 Introducing early infant male circumcision (EIMC) can sustain voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) programs. This Global Health: Science and Practice supplement presents lessons learned, research findings on demand creation, and cost comparisons of various models of EIMC introduction.
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The Perceptions on Male Circumcision as a Preventive Measure Against HIV Infection and Considerations in Scaling up of the Services: A Qualitative Study Among Police Officers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2012 \ud In recent randomized controlled trials, male circumcision has been proven to complement the available biomedical interventions in decreasing HIV transmission from infected women to uninfected men.
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PrEP as a feature in the optimal landscape of combination HIV prevention in sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
, 2016 INTRODUCTION: The new WHO guidelines recommend offering pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to people who are at substantial risk of HIV infection. However, where PrEP should be prioritised, and for which population groups, remains an open question.
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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.
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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 +11 more
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Effects of HIV voluntary medical male circumcision programs on sexually transmitted infections. [PDF]
Curr Opin Infect Dis, 2021 Purpose of review Evidence of the protective effect of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) against HIV is well established. However, evidence of the protective effect of VMMC against other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) has been inconsistent or scarce across different populations and settings.
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Christians’ Cut: Popular Religion and the Global Health Campaign for Medical Male Circumcision in Swaziland [PDF]
, 2017 Swaziland faces one of the worst HIV epidemics in the world and is a site for the current global health campaign in sub-Saharan Africa to medically circumcise the majority of the male population.
Golomski, Casey, Nyawo, Sonene
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Voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention in fishing communities in Uganda: the influence of local beliefs and practice. [PDF]
, 2016 Local beliefs and practices about voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) may influence uptake and effectiveness. Data were gathered through interviews with 40 people from four ethnically mixed fishing communities in Uganda.
Kamali, Anatoli +5 more
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“If you are circumcised, you are the best”: understandings and perceptions of voluntary medical male circumcision among men from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. [PDF]
, 2015 While the uptake of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) is increasing, South Africa has only attained 20% of its target to circumcise 80% of adult men by 2015.
Barnabas, Ruane +4 more
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