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Webinar: Women and Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision

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Presentations and recording of the Nov. 19, 2014, webinar: VIEW: Webinar Recording | Webinar Chat Stephanie Davis, MD, MPH is a medical officer on the CDC HIV Prevention Branch’s Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Team. Dr. Davis’s areas of focus include guidance development for adverse events and wound healing classification, VMMC service delivery quality assurance, combination HIV prevention, and early infant male circumcision. She previously …

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Scaling Up Routine Early Infant Male Circumcision Within Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

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In this webinar, held Jan. 28, 2015, global health experts considered the pros and cons of offering early infant male circumcision (EIMC) in 14 priority countries in Africa as part of routine Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) care. A number of global and country presenters shared policy viewpoints, implementation experience and pilot results. LISTEN: Webinar Recording | REVIEW: Answers to Questions Posed in Webinar Chat Presentations: Pro…

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Partnering with Private Providers in South Africa to Offer Medical Male Circumcision Services

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… Dr. Maphisa & Partners’ clinic waiting room in Johannesburg. The Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3) published this case study on how a private medical practice successfully partnered with the Center for HIV and AIDS Prevention Studies (CHAPS) in South Africa to provide free medical male circumcision (MMC). [Download] Partnering with Private Providers in South Africa to Offer Medical Male Circumcision Services   …

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Overcoming Seasonality in Scaling Up Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision: A Case Study from Tanzania

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This case study examines the VMMC program launched in 2009 in two Tanzania regions: Iringa and Njombe. Managers of this program believe that seasonality, once considered a key barrier to meeting ambitious targets and running efficient, productive programs, no longer limits the success of VMMC programs. Through a combination of structural and behavioral measures, the VMMC program in Iringa and Njombe saw a significant change between 2010 to 2014 i…

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Webinar: VMMC and Sustainability

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Maintaining HIV Prevention Benefits of Male Circumcision by Incorporating VMMC Into Routine Newborn And Adolescent Health Service Delivery Presentations and recording from the July 9, 2015 Webinar. Webinar Recording | Webinar Chat Introduction Moderator: Emmanuel Njeuhmeli, MD, MPH, MBA Dr. Emmanuel Njeuhmeli is the Senior Biomedical Prevention Advisor at the Office of HIV/AIDS at USAID Washington. He is the VMMC technical lead for USAID and prov…

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Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Services and Implications for the Provision of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision: Results of a Systematic Literature Review

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… This literature review revealed a general absence of health services in Sub-Saharan Africa that addressed the needs specific to male adolescents, exposing potential knowledge gaps that could negatively influence the population’s benefit from voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) programming. This article was published on March 3, 2016, in Volume 11, Issue 3 of PLOS ONE. Download the Article …

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Scaling Up and Sustaining Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision: Maintaining HIV Prevention Benefits

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This article asserts that, in order to maintain high circumcision prevalence, voluntary medical male circumcision programs in Eastern and Southern Africa need to plan for sustainability and conduct transition assessments early on, rather than waiting until the saturation of priority targets at the end of the program. This article was first published on July 1, 2016, in Volume 4, Supplement 1 of Global Health: Science and Practice. Download the Ar…

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Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision In-Service Communication Best Practices Guide

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The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief’s (PEPFAR’s) Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) Technical Working Group(TWG) identified the need for a counseling reference guide during external quality assurance assessments conducted in several priority countries in 2013-2014. These assessments revealed inconsistencies in core content and key messages communicated to clients. The Communication Sub-Group (CSG) later confirmed the need …

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Webinar: Making the Most of In-Service Communication: A Reference Guide to VMMC Counseling

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This November 7, 2016 webinar VMMC walks users through the new VMMC In-Service Communication Best Practices Guide, which helps to ensure that the communication and counseling at VMMC sites is comprehensive and standardized across PEPFAR’s country programs. The webinar was moderated by: Dan C. Rutz, Health Communication Specialist, Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Panelists included:…