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Expanding Coverage of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision through Private Sector in Namibia

This poster explores how the SHOPS project worked with the public and private sectors in Namibia to standardize the insurance rate for voluntary medical male circumcision and train private providers so that more Namibian men and boys could access this health benefit. In 2012, Namibia became the first country in the world to cover the procedure through private health insurance as an HIV preventive benefit. Dineo Dawn Pereko presented this poster at the International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA) in Cape Town, South Africa on December 10, 2013.