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How do you circumcise a nation? The Rwandan case study
Voluntary medical male circumcision has been conclusively demonstrated to reduce the lifetime risk of male acquisition of HIV. The strategy has been adopted as a component of a comprehensive strategy towards achieving an AIDS-free generation. A number of countries in which prevalence of HIV is high...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4186219/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25604003 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-014-0184-4 |
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author | Mutabazi, Vincent Forrest, Jamie I Ford, Nathan Mills, Edward J |
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description | Voluntary medical male circumcision has been conclusively demonstrated to reduce the lifetime risk of male acquisition of HIV. The strategy has been adopted as a component of a comprehensive strategy towards achieving an AIDS-free generation. A number of countries in which prevalence of HIV is high and circumcision is low have been identified as a priority, where innovative approaches to scale-up are currently being explored. Rwanda, as one of the priority countries, has faced a number of challenges to successful scale-up. We discuss here how simplifications in the procedure, addressing a lack of healthcare infrastructure and mobilizing resources, and engaging communities of both men and women have permitted Rwanda to move forward with more optimism in its scale-up tactics. Examples from Rwanda are used to highlight how these barriers can and should be addressed. |
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spelling | pubmed-41862192014-10-07 How do you circumcise a nation? The Rwandan case study Mutabazi, Vincent Forrest, Jamie I Ford, Nathan Mills, Edward J BMC Med Commentary Voluntary medical male circumcision has been conclusively demonstrated to reduce the lifetime risk of male acquisition of HIV. The strategy has been adopted as a component of a comprehensive strategy towards achieving an AIDS-free generation. A number of countries in which prevalence of HIV is high and circumcision is low have been identified as a priority, where innovative approaches to scale-up are currently being explored. Rwanda, as one of the priority countries, has faced a number of challenges to successful scale-up. We discuss here how simplifications in the procedure, addressing a lack of healthcare infrastructure and mobilizing resources, and engaging communities of both men and women have permitted Rwanda to move forward with more optimism in its scale-up tactics. Examples from Rwanda are used to highlight how these barriers can and should be addressed. BioMed Central 2014-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4186219/ /pubmed/25604003 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-014-0184-4 Text en © Mutabazi et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Mutabazi, Vincent Forrest, Jamie I Ford, Nathan Mills, Edward J How do you circumcise a nation? The Rwandan case study |
title | How do you circumcise a nation? The Rwandan case study |
title_full | How do you circumcise a nation? The Rwandan case study |
title_fullStr | How do you circumcise a nation? The Rwandan case study |
title_full_unstemmed | How do you circumcise a nation? The Rwandan case study |
title_short | How do you circumcise a nation? The Rwandan case study |
title_sort | how do you circumcise a nation? the rwandan case study |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4186219/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25604003 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-014-0184-4 |
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