“Man, what took you so long?” Social and individual factors affecting adult attendance at voluntary medical male circumcision services in Tanzania

…, M Lukobo-Durell, TA Ashengo, H Mahler - … Health: Science and …, 2013 - ghspjournal.org
Background: In 2009, the Government of Tanzania embarked on scaling up voluntary medical
male circumcision (VMMC) services for HIV prevention in 8 priority regions, with the aim of …

[HTML][HTML] Voluntary medical male circumcision: strategies for meeting the human resource needs of scale-up in southern and eastern Africa

…, K Dickson, T Adamu, P Cherutich, H Mahler… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) reduces female-to-male HIV transmission by
approximately 60%; modeling suggests that scaling up VMMC to 80% of men 15- to 49-years-…

[HTML][HTML] Voluntary medical male circumcision: matching demand and supply with quality and efficiency in a high-volume campaign in Iringa Region, Tanzania

HR Mahler, B Kileo, K Curran, M Plotkin, T Adamu… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The government of Tanzania has adopted voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) as
an important component of its national HIV prevention strategy and is scaling up VMMC in …

[HTML][HTML] How home delivery of antiretroviral drugs ensured uninterrupted HIV treatment during COVID-19: experiences from Indonesia, Laos, Nepal, and Nigeria

…, MM Cassell, R Wilcher, H Mahler - … Health: Science and …, 2021 - ghspjournal.org
Introduction: Faced with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, governments
worldwide instituted lockdowns to curtail virus spread. Health facility closures and travel …

Lessons learned from scale-up of voluntary medical male circumcision focusing on adolescents: benefits, challenges, and potential opportunities for linkages with …

E Njeuhmeli, K Hatzold, E Gold, H Mahler… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Results and Discussion: In priority countries, adolescents represent 34%–55% of the target
population to be circumcised, whereas program data from these countries show that …

[HTML][HTML] Reaching the unreached: Performance of an enhanced peer outreach approach to identify new HIV cases among female sex workers and men who have sex …

…, M Cheron, L Nishimoto, C Akolo, HR Mahler… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Finding new HIV-positive cases remains a priority to achieve the UNAIDS goals. An enhanced
peer outreach approach (EPOA) was implemented to expand the delivery of HIV services …

[HTML][HTML] Kidney function in tenofovir disoproxil fumarate-based oral pre-exposure prophylaxis users: a systematic review and meta-analysis of published literature and …

…, E Hoornenborg, S Jana, B Kerschberger, H Mahler… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Previous WHO guidance on tenofovir disoproxil fumarate-based oral pre-exposure
prophylaxis (PrEP) suggests measuring creatinine levels at PrEP initiation and regularly …

[HTML][HTML] Increasing voluntary medical male circumcision uptake among adult men in Tanzania

M Wambura, H Mahler, JM Grund, N Larke, G Mshana… - Aids, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Objective: We evaluated a demand-creation intervention to increase voluntary medical male
circumcision (VMMC) uptake among men aged 20–34 years in Tanzania, to maximise short-…

[HTML][HTML] “If you are not circumcised, I cannot say yes”: The role of women in promoting the uptake of voluntary medical male circumcision in Tanzania

…, J Grund, N Neke, E Kuringe, M Plotkin, H Mahler… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) for HIV prevention in Tanzania was introduced
by the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in 2010 as part of the national HIV prevention …

[HTML][HTML] Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) in Tanzania and Zimbabwe: service delivery intensity and modality and their influence on the age of clients

TA Ashengo, K Hatzold, H Mahler, A Rock, N Kanagat… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background Scaling up voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) to 80% of men aged
15–49 within five years could avert 3.4 million new HIV infections in Eastern and Southern …