Webster Mavhu

Webster Mavhu replied to "Introductions" in the HIV Treatment & Prevention community.

Hello All. My name is Webster Mavhu. I am a social scientist living and working in Zimbabwe mostly on HIV prevention. I have been involved in behaviour change interventions for rural youth and adults, designing a community intervention for HIV+ adolescents as well as several male circumcision studies.

Webster Mavhu replied to "Introductions" in the [ARCHIVED] HIV Prevention community.

Hello All. My name is Webster Mavhu. I am a social scientist living and working in Zimbabwe mostly on HIV prevention. I have been involved in behaviour change interventions for rural youth and adults, designing a community intervention for HIV+ adolescents as well as several male circumcision studies.

Webster Mavhu started a discussion "Early infant male circumcision paper". in the [ARCHIVED] HIV Prevention community.

A qualitative paper entitled "Acceptability of Early Infant Male Circumcision as an HIV Prevention Intervention in Zimbabwe: A Qualitative Perspective" was recently published in PLoS ONE and is available online at http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0032475. Please send the link to those that might be interested. The study was a follow-up to the quantitative ...

Webster Mavhu replied to "Anyone who has come across a rebuttal of Boyle & Hill's article on MMC - it's currently a hot subject in Zimbabwe" in the [ARCHIVED] HIV Prevention community.

Hi Francoise Please note that I am not the one who wrote the article that I posted. It was written by one Zimbabwean journalist. Several Zimbabwean journalists have published various pieces in local newspapers publicising Boyle & Hill's article. As journalists, they have looked at the paper at face value ...

Webster Mavhu started a discussion "Anyone who has come across a rebuttal of Boyle & Hill's article on MMC - it's currently a hot subject in Zimbabwe". in the [ARCHIVED] HIV Prevention community.

More questions on male circumcision and HIV prevention Tapiwa Gomo | 2012-02-26 17:02:00 In July 2010 I wrote an article questioning the promotion of male circumcision as one of the methods to reduce HIV transmission. My doubts were based on loads of literature which I had gleaned through trying to ...