| アブストラクト | PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Through December 2020, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) supported more than 25 million voluntary medical male circumcisions (VMMC) as part of the combined HIV prevention strategy in 15 African countries. PEPFAR monitors defined adverse events (AEs) occurring within 30 days of VMMC through its notifiable adverse event reporting system (NAERS). All NAERS reports through December 2020 were reviewed to quantify AE type, severity, and relation to the VMMC procedure. Interventions to improve client safety based on NAERS findings are described. RECENT FINDINGS: Fourteen countries reported 446 clients with notifiable adverse events (NAEs); 394/446 (88%) were determined VMMC-related, representing approximately 18 NAE reports per million circumcisions. Fatalities comprised 56/446 (13%) with 24/56 (43%) of fatalities determined VMMC-related, representing 0.96 VMMC-related fatalities per million circumcisions. The remaining 390 NAEs were non-fatal with 370/390 (95%) VMMC-related. Multiple programmatic changes have been made based on NAERS data to improve client safety. Client safety is paramount in this surgical program designed for individual and population-level benefit. Surveillance of rare but severe complications following circumcision has identified pre-existing or new safety concerns and guided continuous programmatic improvement. |
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| 投稿者 | Lucas, Todd; Cooney, Caroline; Prainito, Amber; Godfrey, Catherine; Kiggundu, Valerian; Thomas, Anne Goldzier; Ridzon, Renee; Toledo, Carlos |
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| 組織名 | U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Global HIV and TB,;HIV Prevention Branch, Atlanta, GA, USA. tlucas@cdc.gov.;U.S. Department of State, Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Health;Diplomacy, Washington, DC, USA.;U.S. Agency for International Development, Global Health, Office of HIV/AIDS,;Washington, DC, USA.;U.S. Department of Defense HIV/AIDS Prevention Program, Defense Health Agency,;San Diego, CA, USA.;HIV Prevention Branch, Atlanta, GA, USA. |
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