Circumcision 'reduces HIV risk'

From: Reuters 

December 14, 2006

CIRCUMCISING men cuts their risk of being infected with the AIDS virus in
half, and could prevent hundreds of thousands or even millions of new
infections, researchers said.

Circumcising men worked so well that the researchers stopped two large
clinical trials in Kenya and Uganda to announce the results today, although
they cautioned that the procedure does not make men immune to the virus.

Public health leaders hailed the results as pointing to a potentially
powerful way to reduce HIV infections in Africa, the continent hardest hit
by AIDS.

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