Is Mass circumcision can reduce HIV/Aids?
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While men who are circumsized are less likely to catch the HIV virus - there are too many other variables involved in the transmission of HIV (eg. viral load or infectiveness of the donor source, type of sexual activity, use of protection, immune status of the recipient, etc). It is unlikely in the larger scheme of things to reduce the transmission of HIV. The only real way is through careful and protected sex.
No that doesn't do anything to reduce HIV/AIDS.
err..I belive the virus is found in bodilty fluids. Perhaps mass dehydration would work better.
To a small degree but I don't think it would be significant enough to justify mass circumcision, which would be unenforceable at any rate.
No. You've likely read a media report on the reduction in HIV through circumcisions in Africa. However if you read the actual report the media is talking about you find several major flaws. First you have to understand that in Africa circumcision isn't carried out like it is in the US, a large portion of the African women think a circumcised male looks funny, and African men also tend to agree.
With that in mind the following happened. A group of African men were circumcised. Later follow ups find that the African men that were circumcised were less likely to have contracted HIV than the men that were not circumcised. Now the fatal flaw is that the researchers assumed that both the circumcised and uncircumcised men would continue to engage in sex at the same rate and frequency that they did prior to the test starting. They did not have the participant in the group record how often they had sex after the study was initiated.
It is very likely that the circumcised men would not have engaged in as much sexual activity as the non-circumcised men for two simple reasons. 1 the procedure would have made it painful for them to even consider sex for quite some time, and 2 their fear of being laughed at by women that find circumcision to be odd or strange would have also limited them to engage in less sex. The bottom line is one group engaged in less sex (if only because of pain) while the other group engaged in sex as before. Since each episode of sex increased the change of contracting HIV one would clearly see the group that was uncircumcised as having a greater risk of getting HIV simply because those people were exposed to more chances of getting it.
The next problem with this is that women gain no greater protection from having sex with a circumcised man than from an uncircumcised man.
Final problem is that some research has now shown that some Africans now believe that being circumcised makes them immune and therefore engage in more risky behavior because they think HIV can't infect them. This in turn actually increases the risk of contracting HIV because the people become less cautious.
So in short, no it wouldn't help. It might make it worse.
No. Using condoms maybe...
No.
"The United States has one of the highest rates of male circumcision and also one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the developed world, suggesting that circumcision is having exactly the opposite effect. Conversely, Finland and Japan have some of the lowest rates of circumcision and also some of the lowest rates of HIV/AIDS."
Condoms have been proven to be an effective means of combating AIDS.
A lot of the information perpetuated about it preventing diseases is false.
The study that you are less susceptible to aids if you are circumcised is not very good. Here is a discussion of the report and its methodology by "Doctors Opposing Circumcision": http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.o... .
Have a read through their statement. It is very informative. It shows the methodological flaws and poor conclusion in the report that the WHO has jumped upon. Everything is aptly sourced.
That is the case in Africa for heterosexual males but it isn't a cure all
no why would it? the catholic church stopping the ban on condoms would help!
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