Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision: Translating Research into the Rapid Expansion of Services in Kenya, 2008–2011

Zebedee Mwandi and colleagues discuss Kenya's scale-up of voluntary medical male circumcision services, highlighting government leadership, a clear implementation strategy, and program flexibility and innovation as keys to Kenya's success

Cumulative circumcisions done in Kenya, 2008–2011.

<p>Cumulative circumcisions done in Kenya, 2008–2011.</p

Monthly circumcisions done in Kenya, 2008–2011.

<p>Monthly circumcisions done in Kenya, 2008–2011.</p

Target number of HIV-negative males needed to be medically circumcised by 2015 to reach 80% coverage, and approximate proportion of those reached with medical MC services through late 2011.

a<p>Estimate and calculation based upon Decision Makers' Program Planning Tool <a href="http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001130#pmed.1001130-Unites1" target="_blank">[9]</a>.</p>b<p>Estimate and calculation based upon the Kenya national strategy for VMMC <a href="http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001130#pmed.1001130-Kenya7" target="_blank">[19]</a>.</p