Effectiveness of Demand creation promotions and demand creation personnel in creating demand for Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in Chitungwiza district, Zimbabwe in 2016
Abstract:Zimbabwe is one of the 14 countries in eastern and southern Africa that have adopted Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision ( VMMC) as an HIV prevention intervention in response to WHO's recommendation for countries with generalised high HIV epidemics and low VMMC prevalence.However, since 2013 when VMMC was scalled up in Zimbabwe, there was a general low uptake of the VMMC programme particularly on the target age group 20-29 years which has an immediate reduction in the HIV burden. The failure of VMMC uptake in … Show more
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