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.
The articles on voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) for adolescents in this special supplement to the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases point to areas where programmes are achieving successes and reveal areas for improvement. The introduction summarises the key findings and lessons learned from nine studies. Eight of the articles report on how well adolescents in South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe are reached and served by comprehensive HIV prevention services that include VMMC.
A collection of 17 articles, published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, examines research on the introduction of two devices for performing voluntary medical male circumcision on adults and adolescents.
New modelling studies published in a PLoS collection assess the effects of focusing VMMC programs on narrower client age groups and specific geographic areas. This modelling is assisting decision makers in making more-informed decisions about which strategies and investments to prioritize to achieve their goals for reducing new HIV infections.