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Circumcision can halve the risk of a man picking up the HIV infection which leads to Aids, scientists in the United States said last night. Two major trials, in Kenya and Uganda, have confirmed what doctors and campaigners have suspected and hoped for several years. The results have major implications for the fight against the Aids pandemic raging in Africa and Asia.


Breakthrough hailed as study shows circumcision can halve HIV risk | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

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CedarPride

Well there is an easy and very cost-effective way to measure the validity of the findings.

Any idea about the spreading of Aids among the Jewish people? Or maybe a link to statistics about Aids in Israel?

Tumbleweed

I'm thinking it would also give people a false sense of security against the disease.

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CedarPride

Totally agree with you.

Izzibeth

Well, education shouldn't just be abandoned because people are getting circumcised. ^_^ That false sense of security would not be there if people better understood the disease and what you have to do to ensure that you do not get it.

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Hazelnut

I would be interested to see the actual study on this to see if it gives the mechanics behind the increased numbers. HIV (the virus itself) actually has a fairly short lifespan outside the human body due to temperature inconsistencies, so I'm wondering if it has something to do with the uncircumsized head providing a more stable environment for the virus to exist longer either on the surface or immediate subsurface of the skin. (Unless the study controlled for this, I'm assuming that the cleaning practices in Africa may also be a bit, uh, substandard, which could contribute?)

Interesting.

ButterSticks

I'm thinking more along the lines of lesions and broken skin due to poor hygiene along with the intact foreskins allowing a more survivable place to hang out and a route for the virus to enter the bloodstream.

My guess is that simple hygiene would get them a similar improvement in results since unbroken skin is unbroken skin.

Imagine some disease that thrived under dirty fingernails. You can stop the spread by cleaning under your nails once in a while or having them pulled out.