Posted on 02/23/2007 6:38:36 AM PST by US admirer
LONDON (AP) - Scientists say conclusive data shows there is no question circumcision reduces men's chances of catching HIV by up to 60 percent - a finding experts are hailing as a major breakthrough in the fight against AIDS. Now, the question is how to put that fact to work to combat AIDS across Africa.
The findings first were announced in December, when initial results from two major trials - in Kenya and Uganda - showed promising links between circumcision and HIV transmission. However, those trials were deemed so definitive that the tests were halted early.
The full data from the trials, carried out by the United States' National Institutes of Health, were published Friday in The Lancet.
"This is an extraordinary development," said Dr. Kevin de Cock, director of the World Health Organization's AIDS department. "Circumcision is the most potent intervention in HIV prevention that has been described."
Circumcision has long been suspected of reducing men's susceptibility to HIV infection because the cells in the foreskin of the penis are especially vulnerable to the virus...
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Is it the surgery or the types of families that have it done and the environment where boys don't grow up to be gay?
I almost fell out of my chair laughing when I saw that name considering the topic of the story.
Oh boy, he sure has a lot to do, huh?
Again??
St. Paul?
On circumcision:
Elaine: It looks like an alien.
Sort of like how amputations prevent frostbite?
[kidding, although I believe personal responsibility in washing oneself thoroughly is way better than chopping off the offending organ, or its integrities.]
"There is no one size fits all solution for AIDS."
How about abstinence until marriage, then a monogmous heterosexual relatiionship with one's spouse thereafter? There is a solution, unfortunately people don't want to follow it becuase it's not easy. Instead, let's spend billions on drug research and other grasping at straws measures like circumcision
"How about abstinence until marriage, then a monogmous heterosexual relatiionship with one's spouse thereafter?"
The American people were forbidden to think of it as "the gay plague," but is it totally without significance that every incidence of infection has an immoral act somewhere in its chain of causation? Even when the innocent are infected, they are infected by the guilty.
"This is an extraordinary development," said Dr. Kevin de Cock, director of the World Health Organization's AIDS department.
Nowhere near as extraordinary as the news that the director of the World Health Organization's AIDS department is named “Doctor de Cock.”
Although Jews and Muslims (the two circumcising religions) comprmise less than 4% of the American population, male circumcision is about 60% of the populaion.
Mostly has been done because it is an insurance billable procedure.
Remember folks...follow the money
That's an important tip!
Here in the U.S., not committing sodomy would eliminate most new HIV infections. But it is politically incorrect to point out that HIV is a venereal disease that can be largely prevented by not having deviant sex with strangers.
it's not only insurance billable,they also get a tip.
Well, if they can require teenage girls to get that new HPV vaccine, they could certainly require circumcision.
"Circumcision reduces HIV risk" - Circumspection reduces HIV risk still more.
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