Morning Briefing

In order for Rwanda to reach its HIV prevention goals, the country "need[s] to reach two million men in two years to benefit from the protective effect of [voluntary medical male circumcision] in order to achieve this as part of a comprehensive, combination HIV prevention strategy," Agnes Binagwahois, Rwanda's minister of health, writes in a Washington Post opinion piece. However, "the only method widely approved for funding is the surgical method, which is expensive and impractical for countries lacking physicians and surgical infrastructure," and it would take more than 12 years to reach the country's goal, she says.