Creating Demand for Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision: A Training for Community Mobilizers
Trainers can use this facilitators’ guide to plan and conduct a three-day training workshop for community mobilizers on creating demand for voluntary medical male circumcision
PEPFAR Guide to Monitoring & Reporting Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) Indicators
Developed as a resource for partners implementing voluntary medical male circumcision programs supported by the US President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), this guide may be useful to others seeking to improve the monitoring of VMMC services. Topics addressed include the PEPFAR VMMC indicators, target setting, data collection, and use, data tools and reporting […]
A Guide to Indicators for Male Circumcision Programmes in the Formal Health Care System
The indicators described in this guide, based on the Male Circumcision Action Framework, provide a mechanism for obtaining important feedback for the management of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) programmes. The guide is included in the PEPFAR guide to best practices for VMMC site operations.
Botswana Safe Male Circumcision Additional Strategy for HIV Prevention
The Botswana National Safe Male Circumcision Strategy is a part of the country’s national HIV prevention strategy. Designed to increase the prevalence of male circumcision from 20 percent to 80 percent, it addresses the rationale for safe male circumcision, opportunities, challenges, guiding principles, objectives, implementation modalities, and financing the scale-up of male circumcision.
Safe, Voluntary, Informed Male Circumcision and Comprehensive HIV Prevention Programming: Guidance for Decision-makers on Human Rights, Ethical and Legal Considerations
UNAIDS provides guidance for decision-makers and program planners on the human rights, legal, and ethical issues they may need to consider when they are deciding whether or not to initiate or expand voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) services and for service providers on their ethical and legal duties when offering or performing the procedure.
A Framework for Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision: Effective HIV Prevention and a Gateway to Improved Adolescent Boys’ and Men’s Health in Eastern and Southern Africa by 2021 (VMMC 2021)
This document provides strategic direction on accelerating access to voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) for HIV prevention through 2021. Its title reflects a new emphasis on using VMMC as an entry point for a broader range of health services to improve the well-being of adolescent boys and young men.
Association Between Male Circumcision and Women’s Biomedical Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review
A systematic review of the benefits of VMMC on women’s health – such as protection from cervical cancer and its precursor cervical dysplasia, herpes simplex virus type 2, chlamydia, and syphilis.
Making Medical Male Circumcision Work for Women
A report documenting women’s perspectives on male circumcision for HIV prevention based on interviews and focus group discussions with about 500 women in HIV-affected communities in Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, and Uganda. The report offers recommendations on how to ensure that the rollout of voluntary medical male circumcision is safe and beneficial to whole […]
HIV Prevention 2020 Road Map: Accelerating HIV prevention to reduce new infections by 75%
The Prevention 2020 Road Map provides the basis for a country-led movement to scale up HIV prevention programs as part of Fast-Tracking a comprehensive response to meet global and national targets and commitments to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.
Increasing male engagement in the HIV response: Promising Practices brief
Promising practices
