Circumcising adult men may cut risk of AIDS

[seek.learn]

Salaam o alaikum,
Peace

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Circumcising adult men may cut risk of AIDS
Updated Wed. Dec. 13 2006 3:23 PM ET

Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- Circumcising adult men may cut in 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.

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Alaikum Salaam
Peace

[Sweetness]

Avoiding sex with people that have aids also cuts the risk of becoming infected.

[snakelegs]

i remember reading this a while back. is it painful to be circumcised as an adult?

[glo]

Medically this is interesting information.

But in practical terms, how can this information be of value?

For people who are circumcised for religious reasons, sex should be safe in the first place, since they are not supposed to be in any pre- or extra-marital or promiscuous sexual relationships in the first place!

For people who are circumcised for reasons other than religious ones, the circumcision still promises much less safety than the wearing of condoms ...

Of course, we have to remember that many people do not use condoms (for whatever reasons), or don't have access to them.
But do we really want to advocate circumcision as a way of having 'safe' sex? :?

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[snakelegs]

Avoiding sex with people that have aids also cuts the risk of becoming infected.

in poor countries many people get infected simply by clinics that re-use needles - so it is not always caused by sexual promiscuity.

[glo]

in poor countries many people get infected simply by clinics that re-use needles - so it is not always caused by sexual promiscuity.

Good point, snakelegs.
I wonder if there are statistics available on how many HIV cases are caused by sexual activity vs sharing needles ...