The contributions of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) to reducing new HIV infections in Uganda and to screening men for other health conditions in Namibia were among the topics discussed at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle, Washington, USA, 13-16 February 2017. Two presentations addressed risk compensation, with presenters reporting on studies from South Africa and Zimbabwe that compared the sexual risk behavior of circumcised and uncircumcised men. Five of the seven abstracts on VMMC were presented during a poster session on the scale-up of the intervention for HIV prevention.
Oral Abstracts
Combination HIV Prevention and HIV Incidence in Rakai, Uganda
Presenter: Mary Grabowski, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Abundance of Penile Anaerobes, Il-8, and the Risk of HIV Acquisition, Rakai, Uganda
Presenter: Lance Price, George Washington University
Poster Session PU-5 – Prevention Scale-up: Voluntary Medical Circumcision
Predictors of Medical Male Circumcision Uptake by Men Aged 25-39 Years in Nyanza
Presenter: Kawango Agot, Impact Research and Development Organization
Risk Compensation Over 2 Years Among Men in a National VMMC Roll-out in Zimbabwe
Presenter: Daniel Montano, University of Washington
Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for Noncommunicable Disease Case Finding, Namibia
Presenter: Nikki Soboil, Jhpiego, Swakopmund, Republic of Namibia
Male Circumcision and Risk Compensation in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
Presenter: Till Baernighausen, Heidelberg University, Institute of Public Health
Agreement of Self-Reported and Physically Verified Male Circumcision Status in Kenya
Presenter: Kawango Agot, Impact Research and Development Organization