Zimbabwe launches new plan

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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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 of 1.3 million men with VMMC services. By the end of 2014, 400,000 men had been circumcised, or 30 percent of the goal. Younger men have responded enthusiastically, but older and married men appear reluctant to get circumcised (The Zimbabwe Mail, 2 February 2015).

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