bobby78751
Jul 7 2005, 08:20 AM
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The study's preliminary results, disclosed Tuesday by the Wall Street Journal, showed that circumcision reduced the risk of contracting HIV by 70 percent -- a level of protection far better than the 30 percent risk reduction set as a target for an AIDS vaccine.
SFGate Story
MPetrelis
Jul 8 2005, 11:04 PM
This letter ran in response to the article.
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SF Chronicle
July 8, 2005
Circumcision and AIDS
Editor -- Claims that circumcision is a useful protection against HIV- AIDS ("Circumcision may offer Africa AIDS hope," July 6) are old speculation floated by circumcision proponents. Moreover, the amputation of healthy, immunologically alert, highly innervated erogenous tissue has bioethical implications.
While adult males may submit to any procedure they wish, upon fully informed consent, infant circumcision without consent (for which the adult version is invariably a stalking horse) offends basic bioethical principles.
Is it sound medicine or bioethics to amputate healthy tissue, at known risk, in locales where clean water, let alone surgical antisepsis, is a luxury?
The United States, with 70 percent of males circumcised, has the highest rates of HIV-AIDS in the First World.
JOHN V. GEISHEKER
General counsel
Doctors Opposing Circumcision
Seattle
bobby78751
Jul 9 2005, 02:13 PM
I'm sure glad mom and my father got me circumcised...plus it looks damn good, too.
phillyrunner
Jul 9 2005, 07:02 PM
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The United States, with 70 percent of males circumcised, has the highest rates of HIV-AIDS in the First World.
You know I was going to ask about this. I have long suspected that the HIV rates in the US are not lower than say the UK, Germany, France etc. even though circumcision is the norm here but not in Europe. If anyone has any statistics that would prove this out, then I wonder what is the rational of the doctors proposing circumcision.
bear321
Dec 14 2006, 03:02 PM
Gee, I hope this doesn't mean foreskins will be a thing of the past. I particularly like playing with a nice foreskin. If I had a "do-over" I sure would not have given mine up.
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Circumcision may cut risk of HIV by half
Advocate, Health News, December 14, 2006
Circumcising adult men may reduce by half their risk of getting the AIDS virus through heterosexual intercourse, the U.S. government announced Wednesday, as it shut down two studies in Africa testing the link. The National Institutes of Health closed the studies in Kenya and Uganda early, when safety monitors took a look at initial results this week and spotted the protection. The studies' uncircumcised men are being offered the chance to undergo the procedure...
Here the link for the remainder of the article.
Circumcision
QUOTE(phillyrunner @ Jul 10 2005, 12:02 AM)
You know I was going to ask about this. I have long suspected that the HIV rates in the US are not lower than say the UK, Germany, France etc. even though circumcision is the norm here but not in Europe. If anyone has any statistics that would prove this out, then I wonder what is the rational of the doctors proposing circumcision.
I don't think any meaningful statistics could be obtained from the US and Europe. Heterosexual female-to-male AIDS transmission is a minor disease vector here (and I'm not sure what statistics exist can be trusted), and even in those cases, I would imagine some of the transmission is via cunnilingus.
mdterp01
Dec 15 2006, 05:09 PM
Thank god my parents had me circumsized. I don't mind uncircumsized as long as its not enough skin that one could give to a burn victim but I prefer circumsized. Its just more sanitary to me. But much love goes out to you uncircumsized boys.