Px Wire: A Quarterly Update on HIV Prevention Research (January-March 2016)

In late 2015, UNAIDS issued long-awaited HIV prevention targets, including a call for a total of 27 million additional voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) procedures by 2020. This works out to more than five million procedures per year on average—two million more than have ever been performed. PEPFAR’s peak performance was 2.8 million in a single year. It won’t be close to that in 2017. PEPFAR doesn’t need to, and indeed shouldn’t, pay for the pursuit of global VMMC targets on its own. The Global Fund should ensure that country concept notes fill the space; PEPFAR and UNAIDS should advocate for resource-mobilization in country and global forums; and national governments should step up the pace.