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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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- U.S. Newswire
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- March 28, 2007
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To: MEDICAL EDITORS
Contact: Mitchell Warren of AVAC, +1-914-661-1536,
mitchell@avac.org
NEW YORK, March 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 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 ...