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Voluntary male medical circumcision (VMMC) lowers the risk of female-to-male sexual HIV transmission by about 60%. VMMC is an important part of public health programmes in African countries with a high prevalence of HIV and a low rate of male circumcision.

Circumcision

Medical circumcision reduces HIV risk for gay and bisexual men - but only for tops

News
18 June 2024
Improving HIV care

'Swimming amongst crocodiles': How HIV services are provided in conflict zones across Africa

News
14 December 2023
Finance & funding

Governments should take ownership of VMMC programs say AVAC

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Health Times
14 December 2023
Circumcision

Study finds voluntary medical male circumcision continues to be cost effective for HIV prevention

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Be In The Know
8 January 2023
Circumcision

Male circumcisions disrupted by COVID-19, fall short of the 2020 target

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UNAIDS
29 November 2021
Circumcision

Circumcision reducing HIV infections but COVID-19 caused setbacks

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Spotlight
25 November 2021
Circumcision

Circumcisions cut as South Africa focuses on the battle against COVID-19

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Health-e
8 July 2021
Circumcision

HIV and circumcision: Where are we at the end of 2020?

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Spotlight
25 November 2020
Circumcision

Preventing HIV in high HIV burden settings through voluntary medical male circumcision

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World Health Organization
24 August 2020
Circumcision

Messages about male circumcision aren't clear: why this is dangerous

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The Conversation
28 January 2020
Epidemiology

HIV incidence starting to fall in the hardest hit communities in South Africa

News
30 December 2019
Circumcision

Voluntary medical male circumcision―4.1 million performed in 2018

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UNAIDS
22 October 2019
Circumcision

Leadership and financial incentives hold key to increasing voluntary male circumcision

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Avert
27 September 2019
HIV prevention policy

New HIV infections fall by more than half in Ugandan fishing communities

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Avert
26 September 2019
Circumcision

Systematic analysis suggests that circumcision helps protect MSM from infection with HIV

News
4 April 2019
Circumcision

Govt Averts 24000 New HIV Infections

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Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation
1 April 2019
Circumcision

PEPFAR funded 15 million medical male circumcisions between 2007 and 2017

News
26 September 2018
PrEP programmes & uptake

Starting from here – what PrEP programmes can learn from circumcision

News
10 September 2018
HIV prevention policy

Botswana to revitalize HIV combination prevention

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UNAIDS
28 August 2018
Circumcision

Medical male circumcision: is the HIV prevention claim wrong?

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Business Day
15 August 2018
Circumcision

The girl effect: how teenage boys are likely to listen to girls over VMMC

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AVERT
16 May 2018
Circumcision

Mozambique in drive to circumcise 100,000 men in effort to combat HIV

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Daily Telegraph
2 May 2018
Circumcision

Peer Influence, Better HIV Counseling Could Encourage More Boys in Africa To Be Circumcised

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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
9 April 2018
Circumcision

Peer influence, better HIV counseling could encourage boys in Africa to be circumcised

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EurekAlert
4 April 2018