Effectiveness of an "Exclusive Intervention Strategy" to increase medical male circumcision uptake among men aged 25-49 years in South Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Background

South Africa introduced medical male circumcision (MMC) to reduce HIV incidence. Mathematical modeling suggested that targeting MMC services to men aged 20-34 years could provide the most immediate impact on HIV incidence. However the majority of MMCs performed have been among males aged ≤25 years. We evaluated an intervention package to increase MMC uptake among men aged 25-49 years.

Methods

We conducted a pre-post study to compare the proportion of men (aged 25-49 years) presenting for MMC during the formative (Phase 1) and intervention (Phase 2) phases in Ekurhuleni, Johannesburg, South Africa. The intervention included infrastructure changes that separated adults from adolescents at the MMC site, an exclusive men's health club, adult-specific demand generation

SUBMITTER: Grund JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6044089 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature