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.
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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