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)