Pivoting from VMMC to COVID-19

The Clearninghouse on Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention is moving to the new Global HIV Prevention Coalition’s Resource Hub. All of our resources have been transferred to the GPC site, where additional VMMC resources will continue to be posted as part of the Adolescent Boys and Men pillar. This site will no longer be available beginning May 1, 2024.

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As South Africa went into a coronavirus lockdown in March, non-emergency procedures such as voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) were stopped. Many of the organisations providing VMMC services began supporting COVID-19 screening and testing, and their teams quickly saw a need to apply lessons from their HIV prevention experience. In a comment published by Bhekisisa, the head of one of those organisations writes that “time-tested lessons … about building community trust and battling misinformation are just as important in today’s COVID-19 response as they have been to us in the HIV field for the past two decades” (Bhekisisa, 22 June 2020).

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