Circumcision Studied in Africa as AIDS Preventive

NY Times ^ | April 28, 2006 | SHARON LaFRANIERE

[LeoWindhorse]

"Now a growing number of clinicians and policy makers in the region are pointing to a simple and possibly potent weapon against new infections: circumcision for men."

Maybe the docs will frequently slip with the knife and that will really solve the problem....

[PA Engineer]

pass the popcorn.

[isrul]

I think it's BS. Lots of HIV in places where circumcision is common, like the U.S. IT doesn't matter how you slice it if you insist on sticking it where it doesn't belong.

[Alter Kaker]

Conclusive proof that HIV is a Jewish conspiracy.

[XR7]

Circumcision Studied in Africa as AIDS Preventive

How about zippers?

[Alter Kaker]

I think it's BS. Lots of HIV in places where circumcision is common, like the U.S.

Nobody's saying circumcision prevents AIDS, it just lowers the risk of HIV transmission by a certain non-negligeable factor. And sorry, you can't compare HIV rates in the US with Southern Africa, where in some places nearly 40% of adults are infected.

[dk/coro]

Leo, in that case, I would respectfully suggest that we send our first Black President to Africa, forthwith -- to fulfill a most honorable commitment (as a Globalist volunteer, of course.)

The "Bent One" would be doing mankind a real service here --
and even the strippers in Durham would sigh a real breath of relief.

Go do your duty, Slick!!

[newzjunkey]

[lesser_satan]

lol!

BTW, Prager talked about this a while back. He said there was notable resistance to this from the left, on the grounds that circumcision is a religeous ritual. I guess they are more interested in repressing religeon than stopping the spread of AIDS.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

Even in metropolitan areas of South Africa medicine men/shamens take older teen males on group retreats for several days when the same knife is used to draw blood from the men as in circumcision as a rite of passage. South Africans know that practice spreads AIDS, too. Let's hope they start sanitizing the knives or they won't grow to be Alte Kakers.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

Among the medical beneifts - circumcision is correlated with a lower incidence of cervical cancer in the women with whom they are partners.

[M1Tanker]

You just had to use the word "slice" didn't you.....

Doctor to man: "How did you get that?"
Man to Doctor: "I stick it in beans"
Doc to Man: "Beans? What kind of Beans?"
Man to Doc: "Human Beings"

With apologies to Redd Foxx.

[RobbyS]

Basic medical service would lower the rate significantly. If San Franciscans had to put up with the medical care available in, say. Kenya, a tenth of the city would be dead within months.

[neverdem]

It's a well known fact that circumcized men have lower rates of sexually transmitted diseases. Copy and paste sexually transmitted diseases and male circumcision into PubMed.

[AntiGuv]

Not only that, but the HIV infection rate in the U.S., where most men are circumcised, is double that of the E.U., where most men are not.

My guess is that if this circumcision experiment has any effect it'll be to increase rates in Africa, as some number of men who get themselves circumcised think they can go out and get laid with impunity....

[neverdem]

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[AntiGuv]

Here are the actual numbers.

United States: 293,655,404 population (Jul. 2004 estimate); 888,795 confirmed HIV (cumulative through 2004).

European Union: 457,189,000 (Jan. 2004 estimate); 204,665 confirmed HIV (cumulative through 2004).

[Dallas59]

Infected Human Semen/Body fluids injected into a another human body spreads the virus...not foreskin.