WHO, UNAIDS and PSI call for scale up of male circumcision in Eastern, Southern Africa

As WHO and UNAIDS recommended in March 2007, adult male circumcision is an effective HIV prevention intervention, able to reduce the risk of HIV infection among men by up to 60 percent. Clinical trials showed that male circumcision is the only intervention to show consistent efficacy in HIV prevention.

The organization Population Services International (PSI) alone has already circumcised more than 10,000 men in Swaziland and has developed a proven model of demand creation. Today, the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Ambassador Eric Goosby and the World Health Organization’s Director of HIV, TB, and Malaria, Africa Regional Office, Dr. David Okello, joined PSI in calling for greater efforts to rapidly and efficiently scale up male circumcision service delivery in Eastern and Southern Africa.