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Achieving the HIV prevention impact of voluntary medical male circumcision: lessons and challenges for managing programs. [PDF]

PLoS Medicine, 2014
Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) is capable of reducing the risk of sexual transmission of HIV from females to males by approximately 60%. In 2007, the WHO and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) recommended making VMMC part
Sema K Sgaier, Jason B Reed, Anne Thomas, Emmanuel Njeuhmeli   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘I understood the texting process well’. Participant perspectives on usability and acceptability of SMS-based telehealth follow-up after voluntary medical male circumcision in South Africa

Digital Health, 2023
Background Voluntary medical male circumcision (MC) is a biomedical HIV prevention method that requires post-operative follow-up for healing confirmation.
J. Pienaar, Sarah Day, G. Setswe, Beatrice Wasunna, Vuyolwethu Ncube, F. Ndebele, F. Oni, Evelyn Waweru, Calsile Khumalo, H. Tweya, K. Sherr, Yanfang Su, C. Feldacker   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

“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, Celum, Connie, Humphries, Hilton, Knight, Lucia, van Rooyen, Heidi   +4 more
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Simplifying the ShangRing technique for circumcision in boys and men: use of the no-flip technique with randomization to removal at 7 days versus spontaneous detachment

Asian Journal of Andrology, 2019
To assess safety of the no-flip ShangRing male circumcision technique and to determine clinical course and safety of spontaneous detachment (i.e., allowing the device to fall off), we conducted a case series of no-flip ShangRing circumcision combined ...
Mark A Barone, Philip S Li, Richard K Lee, Daniel Ouma, Millicent Oundo, Mukhaye Barasa, Jairus Oketch, Patrick Otiende, Nixon Nyangweso, Mary Maina, Nicholas Kiswi, Betty Chirchir, Marc Goldstein, Quentin D Awori   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Voluntary medical male circumcision versus religio-cultural circumcision and initiation rites: The case of Varemba of Mwenezi district in response to the prevention of human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in Zimbabwe

Theologia Viatorum, 2019
Male circumcision has long been associated with religious or cultural rituals which bestow culturally valuable status. In some communities, circumcision is believed to provide concomitant access to economic and spiritual resources such as land and the ...
Onias Matumbu, Vengesai Chimininge
doaj   +1 more source

Voluntary medical male circumcision: logistics, commodities, and waste management requirements for scale-up of services. [PDF]

PLoS Medicine, 2011
BACKGROUND: The global HIV prevention community is implementing voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) programs across eastern and southern Africa, with a goal of reaching 80% coverage in adult males by 2015.
Dianna Edgil, Petra Stankard, Steven Forsythe, Dino Rech, Kristin Chrouser, Tigistu Adamu, Sameer Sakallah, Anne Goldzier Thomas, Jennifer Albertini, David Stanton, Kim Eva Dickson, Emmanuel Njeuhmeli   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

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, Kuteesa, Monica, Levin, Jonathan, Mbonye, Martin, Seeley, Janet, Weiss, Helen   +5 more
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Scaling-up voluntary medical male circumcision – what have we learned?

HIV/AIDS - Research and Palliative Care, 2014
In 2007, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the joint United Nations agency program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) recommended voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) as an add-on strategy for HIV prevention. Fourteen priority countries were tasked with scaling-up VMMC services to 80% of HIV-negative men aged 15-49 years by 2016, representing a combined ...
Ledikwe JH, Nyanga RO, Hagon J, Grignon JS, Mpofu M, Semo BW   +5 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Progress in voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention supported by the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief through 2017: longitudinal and recent cross-sectional programme data

BMJ Open, 2018
Objective This article provides an overview and interpretation of the performance of the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief’s (PEPFAR’s) male circumcision programme which has supported the majority of voluntary medical male circumcisions ...
Carlos Toledo, Melissa Habel, Stephanie M Davis, Jonas Z Hines, Jonathan M Grund, Renee Ridzon, Brittney Baack, Jonathan Davitte, Anne Thomas, Valerian Kiggundu, Naomi Bock, Paran Pordell, Caroline Cooney, Irum Zaidi   +13 more
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Strategies to increase uptake of voluntary medical male circumcision among men aged 25–39 years in Nyanza Region, Kenya: Results from a cluster randomized controlled trial (the TASCO study)

PLoS ONE, 2023
Introduction Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) for HIV prevention began in Nyanza Region, Kenya in 2008. By 2014, approximately 800,000 VMMCs had been conducted, and 84.9% were among males aged 15–24 years.
J. Grund, F. Onchiri, E. Mboya, Faith Ussery, P. Musingila, S. Ohaga, E. Odoyo-June, N. Bock, B. Ayieko, K. Agot   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source