... pre-vention so as to better inform and reinforce policy mak-ing and imple mentation. Therefore, in r einforcing thepolicy imperative for MC as a proven method for pre-vention of heterosexual ... accelerating the implementation of MC for HIV prevention [101,102]. In 2010, the US-based Center for Global Health Policy called for “aggres-sive scale up” of MC based on the evidence for its abilityto ... 46% for proph ylaxis[196], 39% for microbicides [197] and 31.2% for a vac-cine [198], at the moment, MC, with a 60% or higherefficacy [4], is the most effective biomedical HIV pre-vention strategy...