From Obstacles to Opportunities for Male Circumcision in Tanzania

In villages that are randomized to receive the intervention, Christian church leaders of both genders and all denominations will be invited to attend an educational seminar about male circumcision. This seminar will last for one day in each intervention village, and will use a curriculum that the investigators' team developed in 2012 based on prior focus group work. Seminars will be conducted in Kiswahili (the national language) and co-taught by a Tanzanian pastor and a Tanzanian clinician who works with the male circumcision outreach campaign. Church leaders will be taught medical, historical, religious, tribal, and social aspects of male circumcision and given tools to lead their congregations in the understanding and practice of male circumcision.