WHO hosts a stakeholder consultation on the Joint Strategy to accelerate scale-up of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention in East and Southern Africa
The WHO Country Office hosted a stakeholder’s consultative meeting on 26th October 2011 to review the draft five-year Joint Strategy for accelerating the scale up of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention in priority countries in East and Southern Africa. This strategy has been developed by WHO and other partners to ensure that by 2016, countries with generalized HIV epidemics and low prevalence of medical male circumcision would have stablished sustainable national male circumcision programmes.
The countries are expected to attain 80% coverage of male circumcision for adult men, and 80% for newborns, adolescents and young men. The strategy will also contribute to the Millennium Development Goal number 6, which is targeted at ensuring that the world would have halted.