2011 IAS Conference Abstracts

The 6th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, held in Rome, Italy, 17-20 July 2011, featured many presentations and posters about male circumcision for HIV prevention, including a late-breaker presentation of the results from a community-based study in Orange Farm, South Africa.

• Considerations to improve volume and efficiency for male circumcision programs: matching supply with demand to make the best use of limited resources and achieve the biggest public health impact. The case of Iringa, Tanzania (CDC148)

• Scaling up male circumcision in Northern Uganda: results from a start-up campaign (CDC149)

• Medical male circumcision. What do women know and say? (CDC152)

• Integration of medical male circumcision (MMC) into existing government health facility services in Uganda, the Rakai program experience (CDC155)

• Medical male circumcision (MMC) roll out through surgical camps, the Rakai experience (CDC160)

• Contextual barriers and motivators to medical male circumcision - lessons from the Rakai-Uganda randomized control trials (CDC441)

• The impact of a national voluntary medical male circumcision program observed through repeated random household surveys in Kisumu, Kenya (MOLBPE047)

• A switch to opt-out HIV testing and counseling triples testing uptake among MC clients in Gambella, Ethiopia (MOPDC0101)

• Innovative and efficient approaches for meeting the human resource needs of the male circumcision scale up in Southern and Eastern Africa (MOPDD0103)

• Improving male circumcision coverage through task shifting to non-physician clinicians (MOPE445)

• Acceptability and uptake of neonatal male circumcision in Lusaka, Zambia (TULBPE054)

• Delivering highly efficient male circumcision (MC) services for HIV prevention within the public sector in campaign mode in Iringa, Tanzania (TUPDC0101)

• Service delivery and facility productivity during an integrated minor surgery/male circumcision pilot program in Mozambique (TUPDC0104)

• Barriers to the acceptability of medical male circumcision (MMC) in a population-based cohort in Rakai, Uganda (TUPE352)

• Knowledge, attitudes and practices of women towards male circumcision after three years of roll-out in Orange Farm, South Africa (TUPE379)

• Safety, satisfaction, and HIV risk one-year following male circumcision (MC): a retrospective clinical data review from rural Uganda (TUPE381)

• Sexual function and satisfaction improve six months after circumcision among men in Nyanza province, Kenya (TUPE384)

• Spontaneous detachment of the Shang Ring following adult male circumcision (TUPE385)

• Rapid scale-up of medical male circumcision in non-medical settings in South Africa (TUPE391)

• Effect of the Orange Farm (South Africa) male circumcision roll-out (ANRS-12126) on the spread of HIV (WELBC02)

• A prospective study of risk compensation following male circumcision as an HIV prevention method in Nyanza province, Kenya: interim results (WEPDC0102)