A RCT Promoting Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision

A parallel-group, non-blinded randomized controlled trial was conducted. Participants were uncircumcised heterosexual male sexually transmitted disease patients attending the four collaborative public sexually transmitted diseases clinics in three Chinese cities. Those who were known to be HIV positive were excluded. After completion the baseline face-to-face interview, 238 participants will be randomized 1:1 into the intervention group and the control group. Participants in the control group will receive a health education booklet introducing voluntary medical male circumcision. In addition to the health education booklet received by the control group, the intervention group watched a 10-minute video and received a brief counseling delivered by the clinicians. Participants will be followed up by telephone six months afterwards.