Educating religious leaders to promote uptake of male circumcision in Tanzania: a cluster randomised trial.

BackgroundMale circumcision is being widely deployed as an HIV prevention strategy in countries with high HIV incidence, but its uptake in sub-Saharan Africa has been below targets. We did a study to establish whether educating religious leaders about male circumcision would increase uptake in their village.MethodsIn this cluster randomised trial in northwest Tanzania, eligible villages were paired by proximity (