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14th December 2006, 06:11 PM
Aesthetic reasons aside...
From New York Times (today)
Circumcision Reduces Risk of AIDS, Study Finds
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By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Published: December 13, 2006
Circumcising African men may cut their risk of catching AIDS in half, the National Institutes of Health said today as it stopped two clinical trials in Africa, when preliminary results suggested that circumcision worked so well that it would be unethical not to offer it to uncircumcised men in the trials.
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The trials were stopped by the National Institutes of Health’s Data Safety and Monitoring Board this week after data showed that the Kenyan men had a 53 percent reduction in new H.I.V. cases and the Ugandan men a 48 percent reduction.
From New York Times (today)
Circumcision Reduces Risk of AIDS, Study Finds
Article Tools Sponsored By
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Published: December 13, 2006
Circumcising African men may cut their risk of catching AIDS in half, the National Institutes of Health said today as it stopped two clinical trials in Africa, when preliminary results suggested that circumcision worked so well that it would be unethical not to offer it to uncircumcised men in the trials.
...
The trials were stopped by the National Institutes of Health’s Data Safety and Monitoring Board this week after data showed that the Kenyan men had a 53 percent reduction in new H.I.V. cases and the Ugandan men a 48 percent reduction.