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Home » Should baby boys be routinely circumcised?

circ and HIV

Submitted by Mark Lyndon (not verified) on 26 February 2008 - 3:27pm.

Latest news is that HIV+ who are circumcised are more likely to transmit the virus to women:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/96175.php

Note that

1) this study appears to have resulted in eight extra women acquiring HIV than if all the men had been left intact. 

2) that the rate of transmission was higher even after the healing period, which means that more women may acquire HIV after the experiment is over, solely because their partner was circumcised as part of an experiment.

This is not the first time that HIV in women has been linked with partner circumcision:

http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/23/2/371

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