Need for improved detection of voluntary medical male circumcision adverse events in Mozambique: a mixed-methods assessment

• Main Authors: Atanásio Brito (Author), Abigail Korn (Author), Leonel Monteiro (Author), Florindo Mudender (Author), Adelina Maiela (Author), Jotamo Come (Author), Scott Barnhart (Author), Caryl Feldacker (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Adverse events (AE) resulting from voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) are commonly used to measure program quality. Mozambique's VMMC program data reports a combined moderate and severe AE rate of 0.2% through passive surveillance. With active surveillance, similar p...