Clearinghouse of Male Circumcision
For HIV Prevention
A quarterly newsletter about what's new on the Clearinghouse
malecircumcision.org ([link removed]) october 2019 | Vol. 11 | Issue 2

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** Sustainability in Action
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To sustain voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) services, governments and their implementing partners are working together to integrate them into primary care. During a webinar on 25 September 2019, speakers provided examples of sustainability in action and shared results, challenges, and lessons learned from the AIDSFree project’s VMMC programmes in Tanzania.
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** New to the Site
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** PEPFAR annual report: 18.9 million VMMCs to date
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PEPFAR annual report

The annual report of the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief provides an update on PEPFAR-supported VMMC services, which reached nearly 4 million men and boys in fiscal year 2018 alone ...
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** ShangRing VMMC: country perspectives
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Sustaining VMMC services

During a virtual roundtable organized by Project IQ, presenters shared five countries’ experiences with the use of the ShangRing device for performing VMMCs…
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** Welly and Charles on VMMC
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Welly and Charles on VMMC

A man signs to a friend about his VMMC experience in a humorous but informative video designed to educate deaf men about the procedure and its benefits…
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** Resource Library expanded
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Resource library expanded

More than 200 of the peer-reviewed articles and abstracts about VMMC that have been featured in the Clearinghouse’s quarterly research digest ([link removed]) are now available through the site’s searchable Resource Library ([link removed]) …
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** In the News
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** New HIV infections fall in Ugandan villages

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The introduction of combination HIV prevention services, including HIV testing, VMMC, and antiretroviral therapy, led to significant decreases in new HIV infections in four villages heavily affected by HIV…
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** HIV infections reduced in Zimbabwe
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Zimbabwe recorded declines in new HIV infections of 9 percent among adults and 27 percent among children from 2015 to 2018…
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** Global 2020 HIV targets off-track
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To achieve the goal of providing 25 million VMMCs by 2020, programmes would need to reach an additional 15 million men and adolescent boys…
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