Posted on 07/05/2005 5:11:03 AM PDT by Paladin2b
In a potentially major breakthrough in the campaign against AIDS, French and South African researchers have apparently found that male circumcision reduces by about 70% the risk that men will contract HIV through intercourse with infected women.
Other than abstinence and safer sex, almost nothing has been proved to reduce the sexual spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. World-wide, the major route of HIV transmission for many years has been heterosexual sex.
Vaccine developers have said they would consider an AIDS vaccine with just 30% efficacy useful. But so far, no effective vaccine against the disease has been developed, leaving AIDS workers desperate for another tool to help them stem the tide of new infections, estimated at almost five million last year.
The circumcision findings were so dramatic that the data and safety monitoring board overseeing the research halted the study in February, about nine months before it would have been completed, on the grounds that it would be immoral to proceed without offering the uncircumcised control group the opportunity to undergo the procedure. While men were directly protected from infection by circumcision, women could benefit indirectly because circumcision would reduce the chances their partners would be HIV-positive.
Researchers in the field have been aware of the study's basic findings, but they haven't been published, so most experts haven't evaluated them. The British medical journal the Lancet decided against publishing the study, but for reasons unrelated to the data and scientific content, according to people familiar with the matter. Lancet officials, following standard policy at the journal, refused to comment on why the study was turned down.
The fact that an independent board ordered the study halted is considered a strong sign that the science is sound...
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
That is one misleading title.
Does anyone know how circumcisions are financed and handled in Africa? I would think it might be hard to sell the idea to some of the tribes even if it reduces AIDS.
How long before the muslims insist that AIDS is a plot by the Jews. Heck, they blamed last year's Tsunami on em'.
What did the Jews know and when did they know it?
I'm waiting for the study that proves eating pork makes you stupid.
Sarcasm/
Were you trying to say that the retrovirus cannot be transmitted more readily through glans tissues? Or was your focus on the fact of a "mere study" doing absolutely nothing to contribute towards any prevention or cure?
Because you understood what you were attempting to communicate does automatically confer that understanding upon me, or others.
The Public Breastfeeding threads can get rather personal and emotive, too.
Maybe it was snipped off at an early age! Have you checked?
When should a moyel retire? When he can't cut it anymore.
How stupid they can get. Circumcision in Africa and lower AIDS rates share the common reason - Islam. Circumcision is not the cause, it is a result.
Alas, I see the light in your conclusions...granted, it is a timid and flickering but still, a light. You engaged me from the beginning based on your misunderstandings and rhetoric and cheap gender shots (where you assumed I was a man) but that doesn't change a thing. Blaming me for your lacking to get my point is redundant but then why should I expect more out of you? :)
Your right. It took 16 years after my circumcision before I was able to have sex!
Oh. I now get your big point in posting at all in this thread. Enjoy your massive triumph in posting. You can go play with your own "class" of people now.
WOW! Is this a clinical condition I wonder? Let's see, you attack me full blast, you completely miss my point, you assume the wrong things about me and somehow...it's my fault? Did you OD on Liberal Juice this morning by any chance?
Simple treatment: ECG, vascular access, naloxone and narcan drip.
And you couldn't just write this in your first post? Maybe even your second?
It seems this is jus the same old recycled stuff without any real new science.
Why not a study on how much avoiding homosexual behavior cuts the risk to aids.
Yet they're in the forefront of the body-piercing movement. Can someone explain this to me?
Personally, the practice of circumcision is a conundrum for me.
Poland has Europe's lowest AIDS rate, even though they don't circumcise.
Yeah, cut it off, cut it allllll offffff.
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