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Voluntary medical male circumcision was effective in preventing HIV infection among men who have sex with men, or MSM, according to a randomized controlled trial recently published in Annals of Internal Medicine.The CDC estimates that one in six MSM will develop HIV infection in their lifetime compared with one in 524 heterosexual men and one in 253 heterosexual women.
Significant milestone
Namibia has become the first country in Africa – and the first high-burden country in the world to eliminate vertical mother-to-child transmission of both HIV and viral hepatitis B.
WHO said in 2022, only 4 per cent of babies born to mothers living with HIV acquired the virus.
Since 2012, Malawi has been among 14 African countries that have added voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) to their weapons in the global fight to end the HIV and Aids epidemic by 2030. Studies endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids) in 2007 show that VMMC