Circumcision Could Cut AIDS Risk, WHO Says
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Circumcising men routinely across Africa could prevent millions of deaths from AIDS, World Health Organization researchers and colleagues reported this week in the journal Public Library of Science Medicine.
They analyzed data from trials that showed men who had been circumcised had a significantly lower risk of infection with the AIDS virus and calculated that if all men were circumcised over the next 10 years, about 2 million infections and 300,000 deaths could be avoided. Researchers believe circumcision helps cut infection risk because the foreskin is covered in cells that the virus seems able to easily infect.
