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HIV prevention: male circumcision

 

Africa

• HIV/AIDS - Research and Palliative Care
  • Scaling-up voluntary medical male circumcision – what have we learned? [2014]

• PLoS ONE
  • Could Circumcision of HIV-Positive Males Benefit Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Programs in Africa? Mathematical Modeling Analysis [2017]

• WHO Regional Office for Africa
  • Voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention [2018]

Botswana

• Journal of the International AIDS Society
  • The cost and impact of male circumcision on HIV/AIDS in Botswana [2009]

Cameroon, Senegal

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Early Infant Male Circumcision in Cameroon and Senegal: Demand, Service Provision, and Cultural Context [2016]

China

• PLoS ONE
  • Acceptability of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) among Male Sexually Transmitted Diseases Patients (MSTDP) in China [2016]

Denmark

• European Journal of Epidemiology
  • Non-therapeutic male circumcision in infancy or childhood and risk of human immunodeficiency virus and other sexually transmitted infections: national cohort study in Denmark [2022]

Developed countries

• AIDS Care
  • A critical evaluation of arguments opposing male circumcision for HIV prevention in developed countries [2012]

East Africa

• Lancet Global Health
  • ShangRing versus Mogen clamp for early infant male circumcision in eastern sub-Saharan Africa: a multicentre, non-inferiority, adaptive, randomised controlled trial [2022]

Eastern and Southern Africa

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Voluntary Medical Male Circumcisions for HIV Prevention — 13 Countries in Eastern and Southern Africa, 2017–2021 [2023]
  • Bleeding and Blood Disorders in Clients of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention — Eastern and Southern Africa, 2015–2016 [2018]
  • Scale-Up of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Services for HIV Prevention — 12 Countries in Southern and Eastern Africa, 2013–2016 [2017]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision: Strategies for Meeting the Human Resource Needs of Scale-Up in Southern and Eastern Africa [2011]

• UNAIDS
  • Voluntary medical male circumcision — Remarkable progress in the scale-up of voluntary medical male circumcision as an HIV prevention intervention in 15 eastern and southern African countries [2020]

• World Health Organization
  • WHO progress brief: voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention in 14 priority countries in Eastern and Southern Africa, July 2017 [2017]
  • A framework for voluntary medical male circumcision: effective HIV prevention and a gateway to improved adolescent boys' & men's health in Eastern and Southern Africa by 2021 [2016]
  • Progress in scale-up of male circumcision for HIV prevention in Eastern and Southern Africa: focus on service delivery - 2011 revised [2011]

Eswatini

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Scaling Up Early Infant Male Circumcision: Lessons From the Kingdom of Swaziland [2016]

• PLoS ONE
  • Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention in Swaziland: Modeling the Impact of Age Targeting [2016]

International

• Clearinghouse on Male Circumcision
  • Clearinghouse on Male Circumcision

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Infant Circumcision for Sexually Transmitted Infection Risk Reduction Globally [2022]

• UNAIDS
  • Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention in High HIV Prevalence Settings: What Can Mathematical Modelling Contribute to Informed Decision Making? UNAIDS/WHO/SACEMA Expert Group on Modelling the Impact and Cost of Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention [2009]

Kenya

• PLoS Medicine
  • Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision: Translating Research into the Rapid Expansion of Services in Kenya, 2008–2011 [2011]

Lesotho

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Scale-Up of Early Infant Male Circumcision Services for HIV Prevention in Lesotho: A Review of Facilitating Factors and Challenges [2016]

Malawi

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Classification and rates of adverse events in a Malawi male circumcision program: impact of quality improvement training [2016]

• BMC Public Health
  • Male circumcision and HIV infection among sexually active men in Malawi [2015]

• PLoS ONE
  • Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention in Malawi: Modeling the Impact and Cost of Focusing the Program by Client Age and Geography [2016]

Papua New Guinea

• Health Research Policy and Systems
  • Researching male circumcision for HIV prevention in Papua New Guinea: a process that incorporates science, faith and culture [2013]

• PLoS ONE
  • Impact of Male Circumcision on the HIV Epidemic in Papua New Guinea: A Country with Extensive Foreskin Cutting Practices [2014]

• Sexually Transmitted Infections
  • HIV prevalence is strongly associated with geographical variations in male circumcision and foreskin cutting in Papua New Guinea: an ecological study [2015]

Rwanda

• BMC Medicine
  • How do you circumcise a nation? The Rwandan case study [2014]

South Africa

• Gates Open Research
  • The impact of the program for medical male circumcision on HIV in South Africa: analysis using three epidemiological models [2021]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Effectiveness of and Financial Returns to Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention in South Africa: An Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Analysis [2016]

• PLoS ONE
  • The Cost of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in South Africa [2016]
  • Cost and Impact of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in South Africa: Focusing the Program on Specific Age Groups and Provinces [2016]

Southern and Eastern Africa

• BMJ Open
  • Progress in voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention supported by the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief through 2017: longitudinal and recent cross-sectional programme data [2018]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• BMC Medicine
  • Mapping male circumcision for HIV prevention efforts in sub-Saharan Africa [2020]

• Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Adolescent Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention in High Priority Countries: Opportunities for Improvement [2018]

• Journal of the International AIDS Society
  • Male circumcision for HIV prevention: current evidence and implementation in sub-Saharan Africa [2011]

• PLoS ONE
  • Service delivery interventions to increase uptake of voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention: A systematic review [2020]
  • Economic compensation interventions to increase uptake of voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]
  • Economic Evaluations of Adult Male Circumcision for Prevention of Heterosexual Acquisition of HIV in Men in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review [2010]

• World Health Organization
  • Enhancing uptake of voluntary medical male circumcision among adolescent boys and men at higher risk for HIV: evidence and case studies [2021]

Tanzania

• PLoS ONE
  • The Economic and Epidemiological Impact of Focusing Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention on Specific Age Groups and Regions in Tanzania [2016]
  • Costs and Impacts of Scaling up Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in Tanzania [2014]

Uganda

• Health Research Policy and Systems
  • Introduction of male circumcision for HIV prevention in Uganda: analysis of the policy process [2015]

• PLoS ONE
  • Modeling the Impact of Uganda’s Safe Male Circumcision Program: Implications for Age and Regional Targeting [2016]

United States

• American Journal of Men's Health
  • Can Routine Neonatal Circumcision Help Prevent Human Immunodeficiency Virus Transmission in the United States? [2009]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Recommendations for providers counseling male patients and parents regarding male circumcision and the prevention of HIV infection, STIs, and other health outcomes [2014]
  • Background, Methods, and Synthesis of Scientific Information Used to Inform the "Recommendations for Providers Counseling Male Patients and Parents Regarding Male Circumcision and the Prevention of HIV infection, STIs, and other Health Outcomes [2014]
  • Male Circumcision in the United States for the Prevention of HIV Infection and Other Adverse Health Outcomes: Report from a CDC Consultation [2010]

• Frontiers in Pediatrics
  • Do the Benefits of Male Circumcision Outweigh the Risks? A Critique of the Proposed CDC Guidelines [2015]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Improving surgical male circumcision practice – urethral fistula: diagnosis, first management and prevention [2021]
  • Preventing HIV through safe voluntary medical male circumcision for adolescent boys and men in generalized HIV epidemics: recommendations and key considerations [2020]
  • Technical Advisory Group on innovations in male circumcision [2019]
  • Overview of the WHO prequalification of male circumcision devices assessment [2019]
  • Improving surgical male circumcision practice through experience: preventing urethral fistula [2019]
  • Manual for male circumcision under local anaesthesia and HIV prevention services for adolescent boys and men [2018]
  • Models to inform fast tracking voluntary medical male circumcision in HIV combination prevention: meeting report, 23–24 March 2016 [2017]
  • WHO technical advisory group on innovations in male circumcision, meeting report, 30 September - 2 October 2014, Geneva, Switzerland [2015]
  • Guideline on the use of devices for adult male circumcision for HIV prevention [2013]
  • Use of devices for adult male circumcision in public health HIV prevention programmes: conclusions of the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Innovations in Male Circumcision [2012]
  • Framework for clinical evaluation of devices for male circumcision [2012]
  • Manual for early infant male circumcision under local anaesthesia [2010]
  • Traditional male circumcision among young people : a public health perspective in the context of HIV prevention [2009]
  • New data on male circumcision and HIV prevention : policy and programme implications : WHO/UNAIDS Technical Consultation [2007]
  • Voluntary medical male circumcision

Zambia

• PLoS ONE
  • Investigating Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Program Efficiency Gains through Subpopulation Prioritization: Insights from Application to Zambia [2015]

Zimbabwe

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Comparative Cost of Early Infant Male Circumcision by Nurse-Midwives and Doctors in Zimbabwe [2016]

• PLoS ONE
  • The emerging health impact of voluntary medical male circumcision in Zimbabwe: An evaluation using three epidemiological models [2018]
  • A systems-based assessment of the PrePex device adverse events active surveillance system in Zimbabwe [2017]
  • A Reevaluation of the Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Scale-Up Plan in Zimbabwe [2015]
  • Cost Analysis of Integrating the PrePex Medical Device into a Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Program in Zimbabwe [2014]

{Related topics}

• Guidelines
  • Neonatal circumcision
  • HIV prevention