Mobile clinic brings hope

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 the barriers to VMMC uptake identified by the Uganda AIDS Commission: lack of access to convenient, free services. The commission found that 1.4 million Ugandan men and boys had been circumcised by the end of 2013, making it unlikely that the national programme will meet its goal of reaching 4.2 million clients by the end of 2015 (BBC, 31 March 2015).