Questioning male medical circumcision: Some thoughts

Voluntary male medical circumcision.

Frequently Asked Questions about Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) What Is Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision?

Men may be exposed to HIV when they have sex with someone who is infected. Specifically, men who have vaginal intercourse with HIV-infected women are exposed to HIV through the skin of their penis. Uncircumcised men who are exposed to HIV are more likely to become infected due to characteristics of the foreskin tissue. Removing the foreskin through VMMC reduces the likelihood of HIV infection. ...

Some Thoughts of Medical Education

'tth atl01) as "that most boring subject", I have succumbed to the temptation to make natu Subject of this address. I have done so for three reasons. Firstly because I have s0rne y ^een interested by, and involved in, medical education for many years and tunif VVo years ago the trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation gave me the opporfoy y spending three months studying Medical Education in the ...

The Demand for Medical Male Circumcision

This paper presents results from analysis of 64 in-depth interviews with urban men embedded in an experimental quantitative study of demand for medical male circumcision for HIV prevention in Malawi. Despite having expressed genuine interest in circumcision, few study participants (three percent) opted to actually undergo the surgery. The qualitative interviews shed light on the gap between fav...

Voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention

As a result, 14 countries in East and Southern Africa were identified as priority countries and initiated programmes to expand the provision of male circumcision (Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe).2 The Central African Republic was subsequently identified as a high priority country for VMMC pr...