Brothers For Life Medical Male Circumcision Resources

This set of resources was produced by the Brothers for Life campaign to raise awareness and dialogue, as well as encourage uptake, of medical male circumcision (MMC) in South Africa. It includes radio and television adverts, brochures, and posters, as well as a facilitator’s guide and flip chart. The brochures include the following:

• Get Circumcised: Know the Facts
• Caring for Your Wound After Being Medically Circumcised
• Educated, Covered and Cut

The facilitator’s guide and flip chart are designed "to be used by lay counsellors, peer educators, community outreach workers, and other health care workers to facilitate discussions on sexual prevention, HIV counselling and testing (HCT), family planning, and MMC." The MMC flipchart is intended to be a pictorial representation of important information on HIV prevention and medical male circumcision that must be shared with men before they undergo medical male circumcision. The facilitator’s notes help facilitators use the flipchart correctly.

The flip chart and notes covers the following key areas:

• "Getting Started - The basic principles for MMC Group Discussions – This section provides practical and ethical information around counselling/facilitating groups of men in preparation for their MMC encounter.
• How HIV is transmitted - This section is designed to provide information about how HIV is transmitted, and the risk factors for the transmission of HIV such as multiple sexual partners, alcohol, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
• Preventing unwanted pregnancies, HIV and STIs - this section looks at how one can prevent HIV, unwanted pregnancies, and STIs.
• Understanding how HIV works in the body - This section explores how HIV works in the body over time. The main objective of this section is to highlight the risks of getting HIV in the period after a person is infected with HIV and that people can live with HIV for a long period of time before and after taking antiretrovirals.
• What men need to know about medical male circumcision - This section will help facilitators talk to men about why men should get circumcised, what are the health benefits of medical male circumcision, how the procedure is performed, post-operative care and HIV prevention after MMC.
• Frequently Asked Questions - This section has some of the most common questions that participants may ask, as well as the answers.
• Useful Contact Details - This section contains information on useful contacts such as the AIDS Helpline, MMC sites, etc. There is space for facilitators to complete information on local contacts to share with the group following this session."

Click here to download the Medical Male Circumcision flip chart in PDF format.
Click here to download "Medical Male Circumcision: Facilitator’s Notes" in PDF format.
Click here to download the other resources from the Brothers For Life website.