Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Risk of aids lowered by 60%
"...the United Nations agency fighting the disease, said about 3.2 million African men had been voluntarily circumcised since word began spreading in 2007 of studies showing that it lowered the risk of aids by about 60 percent..." (New York Times, McNeil) Studies show that circumcisions dramatically lower the risk of aids. Unfortunately "It does not protect gay men engaged in receptive anal sex, believed to cause most infections in the United States." This groundbreaking discovery could rapidly reduce aids in Africa as well as the United States.
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wow, this is super interesting.........i always argued with my sister when she had her son that she should circumcise him.....for this exact reason. Nice work!
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