Fact Sheets

• Male Circumcision (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) for HIV Prevention (Avert)

Selected Recent Articles

• Circumcision, ART reduce new HIV infections in rural Ugandan men.  (July 2016, Healio)
• Introducing Innovation: The Role of Devices in VMMC [circumcision].  (June 2016, AVAC)
• Financial Incentives Encourage African Men to Be Circumcised.  (July 2015, Poz)
• Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision at IAS 2015: Cause for Celebration and Concern.  (July 2015, AVAC)
• Cash compensation encourages uptake of circumcision, PMTCT services.  (July 2015, AIDSmap)
• HSV-2 shedding increases after circumcision of HIV coinfected men.  (May 2015, Healio)
• HIV shedding high following male circumcision; reduced when healed.  (May 2015, Healio)
• As the impact and efficiency of medical circumcision increase, a target is lacking for a proven intervention.  (March 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
• More Evidence That Circumcision Is Lowering African HIV Rates.  (March 2015, Poz)
• Circumcision is reducing HIV incidence in Uganda, Rakai community study shows.  (February 2015, AIDSmap)
• Medical circumcision strategies and results include implications for partners, herpes findings, effect of ARVs.  (February 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
• The CDC Dives Into the Great American Circumcision Debate.  (January 2015, Poz)
• CDC Proposes Advising That Male Circumcision Helps Prevent HIV.  (December 2014, Poz)
• Male Circumcision Doesn’t Raise Sexual Risk-Taking in Zambia.  (July 2014, Poz)
• Sustainable VMMC programs: They Didn’t Mean To!  (July 2014, Health Policy Project)
• Three-quarters of women interviewed in Kenya’s highest prevalence province say they prefer circumcised partners.  (June 2014, AIDSmap)
• Male Circumcision Lowers HIV Rates in Women as Well.  (March 2014, Poz)
• Women with circumcised partners less likely to have HIV, no less likely to use condoms.  (March 2014, AIDSmap)
• Cross-sectional study suggests circumcision is having a big impact on HIV rates among men in Orange Farm, South Africa.  (October 2013, AIDSmap)
• Circumcision Program in South African Town Reduces HIV Rates.  (September 2013, Poz)
• Text messages do not reduce early resumption of sexual activity in recently circumcised men.  (September 2013, AIDSmap)
• Medical male circumcision campaigns face cultural challenges in southern Africa.  (July 2013, AIDSmap)
• Male circumcision: the message is catching on, but scale-up poses monitoring and follow-up problems.  (July 2013, AIDSmap)
• More Study Needed Linking Microbes, Circumcision to HIV Risk.  (April 2013, Poz)
• Circumcision May Not Protect White U.K. Gay Men From HIV.  (March 2013, Poz)
• HIV Prevention at CROI 2013.  (March 2013, NATAP)
• Slow progress in expansion of voluntary circumcision coverage.  (March 2013, AIDSmap)
• Circumcision makes no difference to HIV infection in UK gay men.  (February 2013, AIDSmap)
• Neonatal male circumcision feasible in resource-limited settings; Mogen clamp may have advantages.  (February 2013, AIDSmap)