AIDS 2012 Conference Abstracts

 

 

 

 

 

Male circumcision for HIV prevention was highlighted in more than 70 presentations and abstracts at the XIXth International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC, from 23 to 27 July 2012.

For a printable handout of abstracts, presentations, and sessions that include information about male circumcision for HIV prevention, click here.

23 July 2012

Oral poster discussion session
Male Circumcision: Are We Making the Cut?
Venue: Session Room 8
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Co-Chairs: Anita Asiimwe, Rwanda; Robert Bailey, United States 

• Rwanda's experience in scaling-up male medical circumcision (MOPDE0101)

• Determinants of VMMC provider burnout in four sub-Saharan countries (MOPDE0102)

• Implementation of VMMC efficiency elements in four sub-Saharan countries: service delivery methods and provider attitudes (MOPDE0103)

• Service delivery trends in Kenya's voluntary medical male circumcision scale-up from 2008-2011 (MOPDE0104)

• Male circumcision in Swaziland: demographics, behaviours and HIV prevalence (MOPDE0105)

• A comparative analysis of two high-volume male medical circumcision (MMC) operational models with similar service delivery outcomes in different settingswithin Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces in South Africa: urban Centre for HIV/AIDS Prevention Stud (MOPDE0106)

• We too are shareholders: why women must be meaningfully involved in the rollout of medical male circumcision in Africa (MOPDE0107) 

Satellite sessions 

Getting Real About Getting to the End of AIDS
Venue: Session Room 2
Time: 18:30 - 20:30 
Chair: Charlayne Hunter-Gault, United States
Organisers: AVAC and amfAR

Call to Action for Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision
Venue: Session Room 8
Time: 18:30 - 20:30
Chair: Brenda Wilson, United States
Organisers: PEPFAR, UNAIDS, AVAC, WHO and Champions for an HIV-Free Generation

Oral abstracts

HIV-1 female-to-male sexual transmission: evaluation of circumcised and uncircumcised penile tissue (MOLBA03) 
Venue: Session Room 2
Time: 11:30 - 11:45

Is treatment as prevention the new game-changer? Costs and effectiveness (MOAE0202) 
Venue: Session Room 8
Time: 14:45- 15:00

24 July 2012

Satellite session 

Innovations to Facilitate Acceleration of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Scale up: Potential Role of Medical Devices
Venue: Mini Room 5
Time: 07:00 - 08:30
Chair: Tim Farley, Switzerland
Organisers: PEPFAR, FHI 360, PSI, Engender Health, and Jhpiego

Oral abstract session 

Male Circumcision: Strategies and Impact
Oral Abstract Session: Track C
Venue: Session Room 5
Time: 14:30 - 16:00
Co-Chairs: Benedict Xaba, Swaziland; Jason Bailey Reed, United States

• What women think about male circumcision: perceptions of female partners of recently circumcised men in Nyanza province, Kenya (TUAC0401)

• The efficacy of medical male circumcision against HIV acquisition at 66 months post-procedure in Kisumu, Kenya (TUAC0402)

• Decrease of HIV prevalence over time among the male population of Orange Farm, South Africa, following a circumcision roll-out (ANRS-12126) (TUAC0403)

• Randomized controlled trial of the Shang Ring versus conventional surgical techniques for adult male circumcision in Kenya and Zambia (TUAC0404)

• One arm, open label, prospective, cohort field study to assess the safety and efficacy of the PrePex device for scale-up of non-surgical circumcision when performed by nurses in resource-limited settings for HIV prevention (TUAC0405) 

Oral abstracts

Lack of effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy (ART) as an HIV prevention tool for serodiscordant couples in a rural ART program without viral load monitoring in Uganda (TUAC0103) 
Venue: Session Room 3
Time: 11:30 - 11:45

25 July 2012

Oral abstracts

Investing in HIV prevention in a global recession: HIV prevention research and development funding trends 2000-2011 (WEPDD0203) 
Venue: Mini Room 9
Time: 13:10 - 13:15

27 July 2012

Oral abstracts

Estimating national HIV incidence from directly observed seroconversions in the Swaziland HIV Incidence Measurement Survey (SHMIS) longitudinal cohort (FRLBX02) 
Venue: Session Room 7
Time: 11:15 - 11:30

Poster exhibition

• Risk compensation following male circumcision: a cause for concern? Results from a prospective cohort study of circumcised and uncircumcised men in Nyanza Province, Kenya (LBPE31)

• Trends in HIV prevalence, incidence and demographic and behavioural risk factors among youth in Rakai, Uganda, 1999-2011 (MOPE207)

• Incidence of new sexual partnerships in an HIV discordant couple observational cohort in Kampala, Uganda (MOPE208 )

• Consensual male-male sex, male-male sexual assault and prevalent HIV infection in South Africa: results from a population-based household survey (MOPE300)

• Male circumcision and the female question: do women benefit in the promotion of male circumcision for HIV/AIDS prevention? (MOPE355)

• Knowledge of HIV transmission and experience of caregivers administering ARVs to HIV-positive children (MOPE485)

• Penile measurements in rural Tanzanian males: informing male circumcision device design (MOPE681)

• Ease of Shang Ring method potential key to scale-up of male circumcision in Africa (MOPE683)

• Cost and effectiveness of neonatal male circumcision in the United States (MOPE684)

• Setting up a medical male circumcision roll out program for HIV/AIDS prevention in resource-limited settings: the experiences of the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), Kampala, Uganda (MOPE685)

• A gender-based approach for expanding and integrating male medical circumcision in northern Uganda (MOPE686)

• Scaling-up male circumcision in Tanzania yields cost benefits for HIV prevention (MOPE687)

• Using stochastic frontier analysis to estimate the efficiency of medical male circumcision programs (MOPE688)

• Comparing costs of introducing the PrePex device into routine male circumcision for HIV prevention programming in Kenya versus the forceps-guided method (MOPE689)

• Attitudes towards child and adult male circumcision among a community-based sample of heterosexual couples in Soweto, South Africa (MOPE690)

• Promoting acceptance and uptake of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) in mobile populations: a US Department of Defense (DOD) success story of the Rwanda defense forces (RDF) (MOPE691)

• Changes in sources of information and perceptions of safety and infant circumcision among women and uncircumcised men in Kisumu, Kenya: results from sequential population-based surveys (MOPE692)

• Changes in preferences, beliefs and sexual behaviours among women after two years of exposure to the voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) program in Kisumu, Kenya (MOPE693)

• For voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC), analysis shows advantages in cost and logistics of disposable kits compared to reusable kits (MOPE733)

• Shout-It-Now: comprehensive community-based HIV counseling and testing (HCT): how teamwork, technology, celebrities and community partnerships are successfully engaging South African adults and youth in 21st century HCT and prevention services (THPE128)

• GOAL Trial: pilot results of a sport-based HIV prevention intervention to inform a cluster-randomized trial in South African schools (THPE152)

• Using male circumcision as a means for HIV prevention among women and girls: a focus on gender based violence (THPE179)

• Reasons for not getting circumcised and willingness to get circumcised (THPE282)

• Setting the stage for combination HIV prevention: developing a strategic assessment to inform a cluster-randomized trial in Iringa, Tanzania (THPE290)

• A qualitative study of men's perceptions of medical male circumcision (MMC) at Caluza community, Kwazulu-Natal (THPE298)

• Religion and risk: HIV and sexual behaviour by religious affiliation across seven African countries (THPE582)

• Leveraging the private health sector to sustain national HIV programs in the context of diminishing donor resources (THPE703)

• Strengthening networks and referral systems to improve access to and utilization of HIV/TB and wrap-around services: experiences from east central Uganda (TUPE189)

• Acceptability of safe male circumcision among HIV high risk fishing communities along Lake Victoria: a qualitative study (TUPE356)

• Door-to-door mobilisation for circumcision, Zimbabwe (TUPE430)

• Acceptability of male circumcision as a strategy for HIV prevention in Tsholotsho District, Zimbabwe, 2011 (WEPE236)

• A prospective, randomized, non-masked trial of adult male circumcision comparing a surgical technique to a non-surgical device in resource-limited settings (WEPE237)

• Time to wound healing following medical male circumcision among HIV-negative and HIV-positive men in Kisumu, Kenya (WEPE238)

• 'He is proud of my courage to ask him to be circumcised': experiences of female partners of male circumcision clients in Iringa Region, Tanzania (WEPE239)

• 'After my husband's circumcision, I know that I am safe from diseases': women's attitudes and risk perceptions towards male circumcision in Iringa, Tanzania (WEPE240)

• Moving from tens to thousands: how using multiple approaches in east central Uganda is rapidly scaling-up voluntary male medical circumcision in traditionally non-circumcising areas (WEPE241)

• Scaling-up medical male circumcision (MMC) for HIV prevention in a non-circumcising community (WEPE242)

• Sexual function, satisfaction and penile trauma 24 months after circumcision among young men in Nyanza Province, Kenya (WEPE243)

• Very low rate of adverse events (AEs) during rapid scale-up of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) services in both fixed sites and outreach campaigns in Tanzania (WEPE244)

• Male circumcision in South Africa: knowledge, disinhibition and timing (WEPE245)

• A baseline random household survey of male circumcision prevalence, knowledge and attitudes of adults in rural Kasungu district, central Malawi (WEPE246 - Poster Exhibition)

• Rapid and effective implementation of high-volume high-quality medical male circumcision in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 2010-1011 (WEPE247 - Poster Exhibition)

• Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) as an entry point for other male reproductive health services (WEPE248 - Poster Exhibition)

• Reaching young men with prevention, care and treatment through public sector voluntary medical male circumcision services in a high HIV prevalence province in South Africa (WEPE249 - Poster Exhibition)

• Prevalence and acceptability of medical male circumcision in South Africa (WEPE250)

• Feasibility of circumcising male infants in Soweto and Orange Farm, South Africa: why would parents circumcise their infants? (WEPE251)

• Understanding the cultural meaning of the penis prepuce in the Amazon region of Peru: a qualitative approach (WEPE252)

• Infant male circumcision for HIV prevention in Nyanza Province, Kenya: safety and outcomes (WEPE253)

• Age of males accessing medical male circumcision services at CDC-funded urban and rural clinics in South Africa (WEPE254)

• 'We have contracted the virus - now what is the next step? We must mobilize ourselves as men.' Masculinity and HIV/AIDS activism in Cape Town, South Africa (WEPE425)

• Task shifting to non-physician clinicians to support adult male medical circumcision scale-up in Kenya (WEPE674)

• Improving efficiency in project implementation through a PEPFAR-funded initiative to strengthen governance of Ministry of Health programs (WEPE710) 

Published in programme

• 'Preventing HIV from who?' Women's perceptions on male circumcision for HIV prevention in Zimbabwe (PUB029)

• Determinants of willingness to be medically circumcised for HIV prevention among adult men in Jinja district, Uganda (PUB030)

• Couples' voices on medicalised male circumcision (MMC) polemics and masculinities in southern Malawi: an anthropological study (PUB063)