New to the Site

Updates to the site include a video, slide presentations, reports, a newsletter, and a monitoring and evaluation guide. A range of Contributing Partners provide new materials for the Clearinghouse.

Male Circumcision at the XVIIIth International Conference on AIDS, Vienna, Austria
Male circumcision for HIV prevention will be the subject of the following presentations and sessions at the conference, held from 18-23 July. A list of all meetings and presentations can be found through the link below. All presentations are organised by session code.
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Consultation to Review Manufacturing, Clinical and Regulatory Requirements for Male Circumcision Devices to Support Programme Expansion in High HIV Incidence Settings in Africa
The main purpose of this meeting was to review the current knowledge on male circumcision devices and their potential to support rapid programme scale-up in high-HIV-incidence populations in Africa.
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Traditional Male Circumcision among Young People: A Public Health Perspective in the Context of HIV Prevention
This synthesis of the available literature on the prevalence, techniques, and complications associated with traditional male circumcision includes recommendations for strengthening collaboration between the health sector and traditional circumcisers. Read more>>

Nyanza update: quarterly provincial newsletter on the voluntary medical male circumcision programme
The first issue of this quarterly newsletter describes the progress made and lessons learned during the first year of Kenya's voluntary medical male circumcision programme in Nyanza Province, where the programme was initiated.
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Male Circumcision: Saving Lives in Kenya (Video)
In this 15-minute documentary video, Kenyans describe the role of safe and voluntary male circumcision in their efforts to prevent the spread of HIV infection. Government officials explain why they offer the procedure as part of a comprehensive package of HIV prevention services, and men and their wives discuss why they opted for male circumcision.
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Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention: Progress in Scale-Up
This update on efforts to scale up male circumcision for HIV prevention in 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa was presented at the 17th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in San Francisco, California, USA, 16-19 February 2010.
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Training Health Care Teams in Scaling Up Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention in Africa
This report describes a 6-12 July 2009 workshop that prepared public health professionals from Israel and Senegal to work together to help provide male circumcision services and train service providers to perform the procedure in priority countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
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PEPFAR Male Circumcision Partners’ Meeting: Commodities and Improved Coordination of Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention
This report describes a 9-12 May 2009 meeting that brought together PEPFAR partners working in male circumcision to share experience and recommend solutions for commodity and procurement issues that constrain male circumcision scale-up. Some of the presentations made at the meeting are also available.
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A Guide to Indicators for Male Circumcision Programmes in the Formal Health Care System
This guide from the World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS presents indicators for monitoring and evaluating male circumcision programmes that can be adapted for use in different countries.
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Considerations for Implementing Models for Optimizing the Volume and Efficiency of Male Circumcision Services for HIV Prevention
This document provides guidance to help programmes make their clinical and surgical activities more efficient so that they can meet the demand for male circumcision services in a variety of healthcare settings.
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At the Cutting Edge: Delivering Male Circumcision through Marie Stopes’ Reproductive Health Mobile Outreach Programmes in Kenya (PDF, 156 KB)
A study that followed 240 men and boys who received male circumcision services at Marie Stopes Kenya’s outreach sites in eight districts in western Kenya found a low rate of side effects (1.3 percent) and high rates of client satisfaction (99 percent).

Upcoming events: A meeting about traditional circumcision in the context of HIV prevention and an expert consultation on integrating male circumcision into adolescent sexual and reproductive health programs are among the events coming up in the next few months.
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