Africa: Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Shown to Be Highly Cost-Effective, Highlighting the Need to Intensify Scale Up and Sustainability

[WHO] UNAIDS' Global AIDS Update - The Path that Ends AIDS underscores 2 main challenges faced by voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) programmes: diminished funding and low coverage among men in their twenties and older. Since VMMC was recommended by WHO and UNAIDS in 2007 as key to HIV prevention in high-prevalence settings, about 35 million men have accessed services across the 15 VMMC priority countries. While this shows good progress, The Global AIDS update highlights that VMMC coverage remains far
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Africa HIV-Aids and STDs External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Sustainable Development Source Type: news