Voluntary medical male circumcision: an introduction to the cost, impact, and challenges of accelerated scaling up.

Scaling up voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) for HIV prevention is cost saving and creates fiscal space in the future that otherwise would have been encumbered by antiretroviral treatment costs. An investment of US$1,500,000,000 between 2011 and 2015 to achieve 80% coverage in 13 priority c...

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Main Authors: Catherine Hankins, Steven Forsythe, Emmanuel Njeuhmeli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-11-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22140362/pdf/?tool=EBI