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    There is strong biological and epidemiological evidence that circumcised men are less vulnerable to HIV infection via heterosexual intercourse than uncircumcised men....

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    In Africa, the countries where less than 20% of the male population is circumcised form a broad swathe extending from the Central African Republic and...

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  • Goosby Calls For 'Extraordinary Resources' To Be Put Into Male Circumcision To Prevent HIV Infection

    Male circumcision is "a highly significant, lifetime intervention" to prevent HIV infection that deserves "extraordinary resources," U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Ambassador Eric Goosby on Monday told a meeting of 400 army officials from 80 countries in Africa, Eastern Europe and central Asia, Agence France-Presse reports.

    08 May 2012 | Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report

  • Kenyan women calling for partners and sons to be circumcised

    Kenyan women are calling on their male partners and sons to get circumcised to contribute towards HIV prevention. more →

    25 April 2012 | Key Correspondents

  • Being circumcised: ‘My experience’

    “Click, click,” sounded the surgical equipment.  But first came the local anaesthetic injection. Honestly, this wasn’t fun. Actually, it was the painful part of the entire procedure.

    17 April 2012 | New Vision

  • Kenya: Cash Incentives for Uncut Nyanza Youth

    Boda boda operators in Nyanza province might be given cash incentives to persuade them to get circumcised, a national task force has said.

    07 April 2012 | AllAfrica

  • South Africa: Province Rolls Out 'Dodgy' Circumcision Klamp Despite Questions

    HIV activists and senior doctors have called for an urgent investigation into the continued rollout of a controversial male circumcision device in KwaZulu-Natal.

    20 March 2012 | AllAfrica

  • Circumcision may help protect against prostate cancer

    A new analysis led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has found that circumcision before a male's first sexual intercourse may help protect against prostate cancer. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study suggests that circumcision can hinder infection and inflammation that may lead to this malignancy.

    12 March 2012 | Eurekalert Medicine & Health

  • Uganda: Government and doctors insist circumcision reduces HIV spread

    Local HIV/Aids researchers and the medical fraternity have dismissed the findings of a new research that questions the effectiveness of male circumcision in curtailing the spread of HIV virus. A cross section of medical practitioners interviewed yesterday said they would disregard the findings in latest issue of the Journal of Law and Medicine also published in Thomson Reuters Australia, saying the new research appears intended to frustrate efforts to combat HIV/Aids.

    08 March 2012 | Daily Monitor

  • Circumcision Tied to Drop in Herpes, Too

    African men who underwent circumcision not only reduced their risk of contracting HIV infection, they also were significantly less likely to be infected with herpes simplex virus-2, researchers reported here.

    06 March 2012 | MedPage Today HIV/AIDS

  • KENYA: Male circumcision programme suffers setback

    Kenya's most recent male circumcision rapid results initiative failed to meet its target, and officials are stepping up efforts to identify and fix the problems that could foil the government's campaign to circumcise more than one million men by 2013.

    02 March 2012 | http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=94992&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

  • More questions on male circumcision and HIV prevention - NewsDay

    In July 2010 I wrote an article questioning the promotion of male circumcision as one of the methods to reduce HIV transmission. My doubts were based on loads of literature which I had gleaned through trying to make sense of how cutting the foreskin ...

    26 February 2012 | Google Alerts HIV
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