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|publisher=Catholic Medical Mission Board
|accessdate=2011-04-29
}}</ref> CMMB’s [[Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Program|Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision]] (VMMC) program has been active in Kenya since 2007.
CMMB trains local healthcare professionals to carry out [[Circumcision| circumcisions]], which they claim "builds the local healthcare capacity and ensures sustainability." CMMB provides technical assistance, including training for the surgeons, in additional to medical supplies. CMMB has sub-granted to local community-based partners ''Family Health Support Initiative '' (FAHSI) and ''The Organization for Developing People's Ability '' (TODEPA) to conduct awareness campaigns targeting district political and religious leaders.
CMMB began offering VMMC services at the Mpanshya Mission Hospital in the Chongwe District of Zambia in July 2010. CMMB Works Closely with the Ugandan Government to Provide Circumcision Services.<ref name="cmmb">{{REFweb
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Tte Roman Catholic Church prohibited circumcision in 1442.<ref>{{REFconference |last=Pope Eugenius IV, Pope. [ |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/cultural/councilflorence/ |title=Bull of Union with the Copts]. |publisher=Norman P. Tanner (Trans.translator). Session 11, |place=Ecumenical Council of Florence, Florence, 4 February Session 11 |date=1442.-02-04}}</ref>
== Goals Met met ==
According to CMMB's website:<ref name="cmmb"/>
* Educated in sexual health: '''2,122'''
* Parents told of circ benefits: '''6,212'''
* Individuals tested for [[HIV]]: '''12,117'''
* Circumcisions performed: '''15,943'''
* Sites providing circumcision: '''31'''
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Program]]* [[United States of America]]
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