A study suggests that providing antiretroviral therapy (ART) to HIV-positive men who wish to become circumcised could help reduce HIV transmission to their female partners, VOA reports. In the study, which was conducted in Uganda and published in PLOS Medicine, HIV-positive men experienced a temporary increase in penile shedding of the virus in the first three weeks after circumcision. This... more
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A clean, well-equipped operating theatre on wheels is expanding access to voluntary medical male circumcision in Uganda, reports the BBC. The mobile male circumcision truck operated by the Makerere University Walter Reed Project has provided VMMC and related HIV prevention services free of charge to more than 80,000 clients over the past five years. This mobile service seeks to remove one of... more
Kenya’s national voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) programme has surpassed its target of providing services to 940,000 clients, said the VMMC programme manager of the National AIDS and STI Control Programme (NASCOP). Francis Ndwiga of NASCOP is quoted as saying that the programme has exceeded that goal by about 100,000. He attributes this success to coordination and support from the... more
A cabinet minister said that voluntary medical male circumcision could help Zimbabwe avert 220,000 new HIV infections and save US$1.3 billion in treatment costs, The Zimbabwe Mail reports. During a 30 January speech at the launch of the country’s VMMC operational plan for 2014-18, the minister of health and child care urged delegates to plan more creatively to help the programme reach a total... more
Botswana is one of the few countries that have reached the tipping point in the HIV epidemic, which means that for every person on treatment, less than one person is newly infected, a Voice of America branch manager reported. Speaking at an event in a district where HIV prevalence remains high (27.5 percent in 2013), he said that nationally, new HIV infections have dropped by 71 percent since... more