Presentations from the Operations Research Priorities Meeting Held 1-2 June 2009 in Nairobi, Kenya

This two-day meeting, organised by the World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) on 1-2 June 2009 in Nairobi, brought together 33 scientists and public health experts from 11 countries (including eight countries in sub-Saharan Africa) to discuss operations research on male circumcision for HIV prevention, and to set priorities for the next two years. Considerable progress had been made since the first meeting on MC operations research in June 2007.

Meeting objectives and agenda (PDF, 97 KB)

Male circumcision for HIV prevention: country implementation update (PDF, 367 KB). 1-2 June, 2009. Nairobi, Kenya. Kim Dickson/WHO.

Male circumcision and HIV prevention in Kenya: where are we? (PDF, 114 KB) 1-2 June, 2009. Nairobi, Kenya. Zebedee Mwandi/Peter Cherutich

Scale-up of male circumcision for HIV prevention in Tanzania (PDF, 62 KB). 1-2 June, 2009. Nairobi, Kenya. Wambura Mwita/National Institute for Medical Research

Models for optimizing the volume and efficiency of MC services (PDF, 89 KB). 1-2 June, 2009. Nairobi, Kenya. WHO/PEPFAR.

Male circumcision and HIV prevention: experience with the Rwanda defense forces (RDF) (PDF, 1.6 MB). 1-2 June, 2009. Nairobi, Kenya. Eugene Zimulinda/US Embassy - Kigali, Rwanda.

Namibia: where are we in implementing MC activities? What are the operational research needs? (PDF, 2.58 MB). 1-2 June, 2009. Nairobi, Kenya. Mbayi Kangudie.

Research in the context of male circumcision scale-up in Nyanza Province, Kenya (PDF, 783 KB). 1-2 June, 2009. Nairobi, Kenya. Robert C. Bailey/
Kawango Agot/Emma Llewellyn/Nelli Westercamp.

Partnership for male circumcision: achieving scale (PDF, 180 KB). 1-2 June, 2009. Nairobi, Kenya. PSI/Marie Stopes International/Jhpiego/Population Council.

The Bophelo Pele project Orange Farm (South Africa) (PDF, 657 KB). 1-2 June, 2009. Nairobi, Kenya. Dirk Taljaard.

Rakai operational research challenges in providing safe male circumcision services (PDF, 404 KB). 1-2 June, 2009. Nairobi, Kenya. Stephen Watya.

Botswana safe male circumcision strategy for HIV prevention (PDF, 542 KB). 1-2 June, 2009. Nairobi, Kenya. Botswana Department of HIV Prevention and Care.

Operations research and male circumcision (PDF, 43 KB). 1-2 June, 2009. Nairobi, Kenya. George Schmid.

Traditional male circumcision (PDF, 190 KB). 1-2 June, 2009. Nairobi, Kenya. Bruce Dick/Andrea Wilcken/WHO.