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Article: AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition Calls for Strategic Leadership and Urgency in the Implementation of Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention.
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- March 28, 2007
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NEW YORK, March 28 /PRNewswire/ --
Mitchell Warren, Executive Director of the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC) today issued the following statement regarding the new recommendations from the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS on male circumcision as an HIV prevention strategy.
"AVAC welcomes the new recommendations from WHO and UNAIDS on the range of policy, operational and ethical issues that will help guide countries about where and how male circumcision can be best implemented, promoted, and safely performed. These normative recommendations are essential to ensuring successful rollout of male circumcision to protect against HIV ...