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Posted online: Thursday, July 19, 2007 at 8:00:10 PM
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Male Circumcision can Cut HIV Infection, Studies Show

Scientific studies have confirmed a long-standing belief that male circumcision can reduce HIV infection rates in men by 60 percent, an international AIDS conference will be told next week.



David Cooper, the co-chairman of an International AIDS Society (IAS) conference to be held in Sydney from July 22-25, said research on male circumcision represented a major development in HIV prevention.

"We always knew that if you went into any particular African country that HIV rates among Muslim men were lots lower," Cooper told AFP.

"But we were never sure that the Muslim men had lower numbers of partners than non-Muslim men, so people always doubted it."

Cooper said the only way to ensure the link between lower HIV rates and circumcision was not due to cultural factors was to carry out random trials, the results of which will be presented at the Sydney conference.

He said three trials were conducted in South Africa, Kenya and Uganda, each involving more than 2,000 heterosexual men, half of whom were circumcised.

"The reduction in HIV infection was about 60 percent, so clearly it works," said Cooper, who is also the director of Australia's National Centre for HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research.

Cooper said the studies showed circumcision could be a powerful tool in helping curb HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, where infection rates in some countries are up to 40 percent of the adult population.
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This is not a new finding, the advantages of male circumcision were known 15 hundred years ago by the muslim world.
(Posted by Rahman, India Date : 3/26/2008)
It is the lack of HIV related education such as how to prevent HIV infection and how to stop spreading the same once a person is infected requires to be first addressed by wild display of all kind including in the public toilets and public transports.
(Posted by devramshenoy, India Date : 2/19/2008)
if this had been so , then most ppl tobe effected are going to be from India whre hindus dont go for circumcision, where as in Africa most men go for it. Then why the Aids satrted and is a bigger problme there. In India its bigger problme in Arunachal whre teh circumcision is at all time high due to population being Christian.
(Posted by indra, India Date : 12/30/2007)
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