Circumcision Reduces HIV Risk by 60%!

i can't answer that -Minkajane thinks i am a "circumfetishist" for favoring it.

 

What's with all the "save Africa" stuff. If they can't govern their own people right, then what are they doing governing people? We have AIDS patients in the US, and we're buying red cell phones to send money to Africa? Why don't we spend money for them to be castrated? They don't seem to stop wanting to have sex and giving the US the hospital bills.

 

Dude, what, do you get wood acting like an ass? Or are you not acting?

 

Just laying it out there.

 

i'm from africa (north of africa), and i 'm circumcised
is there any problem with that? dudes !!

 

Crud - lay off that racist shit

 

It's unfortunate that you're unable to separate truth from reality. Go on now, you little politically correct tool, go on now.

 

im sad that so many people in africa and everywhere have aids .....the sweet wonderfull belgian doctors unwittingly loosed hiv on humans by growing oral polio vacine on cultures contaminated by chimp kidneys....here in the usa , they wont even allow needle exchanges ....thats just as irisponsible as shooting into a crowd .

 

Right, If you knew anything you'd know the American government and others would rather keep Africa poor to so they can trade with them and get the cheapest deal. Also in the U.S. has trade limits with Africa. The quotas limit more from poorer countries than the quotas from wealtier countries. It's not as Black and White as you think.

 

Well, why don't those nations hold out for more? Trade in what?

 

i'm from africa like i said, from morocco, in the north west, and i'm not poor my dudes, i'm not black too,
i have my own villa in casablanca, i have my mercedes slk car, and i'm living easly.
so don't, say that all the africans are poor

peace to all
and F**K racists

 

I don't think these people are referring to NORTHERN Africa I always considered North Africans to be Mediterranean.

 

but we still african, you don't think?
we still in the african territory, in the continent
so, we are africans

 

Even when the Romans sacked Carthage?

 

carthage in spain, and we are talking about africa. that's one

And this all has what to do with Circumcision and HIV?
=> he says before that all the africans are poors, that's why there is a lot of people who had HIV.
i just explain to him that africa's people are not all poor, and there is a lot of african who haven't HIV

i'm out

 

the circumcision it's practiced by muslims and jews
in africa, because there is a lot of muslims countries, they use to circumcise since the begining of islam

 

this is the article where they said that circumcision reduce HIV risk:

Circumcision May Help Protect Against HIV
Study in African men shows a 53% reduction in infection

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By Krisha McCoy
Thursday, February 22, 2007

THURSDAY, Feb. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Getting circumcised may reduce men's risk of acquiring HIV, according to a study conducted in Africa.

"Our study shows that circumcised men had 53 percent fewer HIV infections than uncircumcised men," lead study author Robert Bailey, professor of epidemiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), said in a prepared statement.

For the study, which is published in the Feb. 24 issue of The Lancet, researchers followed a group of 2,784 HIV-negative, uncircumcised men aged 18-24 years for two years.

The men were living in Kisumu, Kenya, where an estimated 26 percent of uncircumcised men are infected with HIV by age 25. Most of the men were Luo, a group that does not traditionally practice circumcision.

The researchers assigned half of the men to voluntary circumcision, and the other half remained uncircumcised during the study.

All of the participants received free HIV testing and counseling, medical care, tests and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, condoms and behavioral risk counseling during periodic assessments throughout the study.

Forty-seven of the 1,391 uncircumcised men contracted HIV during the two-year study, compared with 22 of the 1,393 circumcised men.

The risks associated with circumcision were minimal, the researchers said. According to Bailey, 1.7 percent of the circumcision surgeries were associated with minor complications (e.g., bleeding, mild infection), and there were no severe adverse effects.

Bailey cautioned that there could be a downside to this approach: that circumcised men may feel like they are protected from HIV and may be therefore more likely to engage in risky behavior.

"Circumcision is by no means a natural condom," said Bailey.

But the researchers are hopeful that, when integrated with other prevention and reproductive health services, circumcision may be able to help prevent the spread of HIV.

"This is really the first good news we've had in quite a long time. If we can reduce the risk of infection by such a substantial amount, then we can save a lot of lives," said Bailey.

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