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Progress Report on Kenya’s Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Programme, 2008-10 (2012, PDF, 752 KB)
This report from Kenya’s National AIDS/STI Control Programme describes the challenges, achievements, and lessons learned from the country’s experience in expanding access to male circumcision for HIV prevention.

New VMMC Knowledge Base Topic on VMMC

The PEPFAR Technical Working Group for Male Circumcision recently commissioned an update to the AIDSTAR-One HIV Prevention Knowledge Base topic on voluntary medical male circumcision. The update includes summaries of the recently released Plos Medicine series and other research as well as several links to useful tools on male circumcision for HIV prevention.

The Unpeeled Mango: A Qualitative Assessment of Views and Preferences concerning Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in Iringa Region, Tanzania. Men’s decisions about seeking voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) services are complex and influenced by many factors. This qualitative assessment was conducted in February 2011 in three districts of Iringa region to inform the VMMC program implemented in Iringa, Tanzania.

Progress in Scale-up of Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention in Eastern and Southern Africa: Focus on Service Delivery (2011, PDF, 1.42 MB) . Read the latest report on the progress made in expanding male circumcision services in the 13 African countries identified as priorities for scale-up.

In It to Save Lives: Scaling Up Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention for Maximum Public Health Impact

Produced by AIDSTAR-One, a PEPFAR-funded USAID project, this 16-minute film details the use of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) as one tool to prevent HIV and documents how policymakers and communities in Kenya and Swaziland have utilized VMMC in their countries.

Medical Male Circumcision as HIV Prevention, Follow the Evidence: The Case for Aggressive Scaleup
This brief, published by the Center for Global Health Policy, discusses the case for scaling up male circumcision in countries with high HIV prevalence and low rates of male circumcision, with a predominantly heterosexual epidemic.

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Framework for Clinical Evaluation of Devices for Adult Male Circumcision
This document provides a framework for evaluating the clinical safety, efficacy, acceptability, and cost-effectiveness of devices for adult male circumcision in programmes to expand male circumcision for HIV prevention. It is designed for product developers, clinicians involved in testing devices, regulators, and sponsors supporting expansion of male circumcision programmes to prevent HIV.

Manual for Early Infant Male Circumcision under Local Anaesthesia
The World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with Jhpiego, developed this manual to help providers and programme managers deliver safe, high-quality infant male circumcision services for HIV prevention and other health benefits.

Advocacy in Action
Two new reports on advocacy in action have been posted from Rwanda and South Africa. A summary reports on a year-long effort to involve civil society in the roll-out of male circumcision in Rwanda and an article examines the issues associated with the integration of gender equality in medical male circumcision messages, programmes, and policy.

Making Medical Circumcision Work for Women
This report documents women's perspectives on male circumcision for HIV prevention. Published by AVAC and the ATHENA Network's Women's HIV Prevention Tracking Project, it is based on interviews and focus group discussions with about 500 women in HIV-affected communities in Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, and Uganda.

Upcoming events: The 6th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention will be held 17-20 July in Rome. Several abstracts on male circumcision arel available for review on the IAS Web site.
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