Assertion: male circumcision | /r/HasProperty | vmmc
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text: Starting in 2008 and following a framework established in 2007, the WHO and UNAIDS recommended voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) as a means of reducing the rate of HIV infection in eastern and southern Africa, and between 2008 and 2016 11 million adolescent boys and men in the region were circumcised, and the 2016 goal was to reach 90% of males aged 10–29-years by 2021.
text: Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) is one of the most powerful and cost-effective HIV prevention tools at hand.
text: Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) helps reduce the sexual transmission of HIV as well of some sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
text: Women have engaged with voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) since the earliest days of research on the subject, and have helped inform programming and raised issues, questions, and concerns about this strategy (see Resources).