TY - JOUR AU - Chikutsa, Antony AU - Maharaj, Pranitha PY - 2015 DA - 2015/07/02 TI - Social representations of male circumcision as prophylaxis against HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe JO - BMC Public Health SP - 603 VL - 15 IS - 1 AB - The World Health Organisation recommended the scale-up of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) as an additional HIV prevention method in 2007 and several countries with high HIV prevalence rates including Zimbabwe have since adopted the procedure. Since then researchers have been preoccupied with establishing the level of knowledge and acceptability of circumcision in communities that did not traditionally circumcise. Despite evidence to suggest that knowledge and acceptability of voluntary medical male circumcision is high, there is also emerging evidence that suggest that uptake of circumcision among men has been below expectations. The purpose of this study was thus to investigate people’s representations of male circumcision that may influence its uptake. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-1967-z DO - 10.1186/s12889-015-1967-z ID - Chikutsa2015 ER -