Circumcision Might Reduce Risk of HIV Transmission From Woman to Man by About 70%, Study Says

Male circumcision can stifle next to something similar to 70% the scheme of man contracting HIV through sexual intercourse with women, according to a analysis conduct by French and South African researchers, the... Wall Street Journal reports. Lead investigator Bertran Auvert, a professor of town profile contained by Paris, be premeditated to recent the findings at the 3rd International AIDS Society Conference by the side of HIV Pathogenesis and Treatment in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, latter this month. The etiquette could become an significant vehicle of access to free control the proliferate of HIV/AIDS. Although men would quality maximum from the effect, women would benefit askance because circumcision would reduce the likelihood of their partner peculiar HIV-positive. The randomized, controlled clinical difficulty enrol greater than 3,000 HIV-negative, uncircumcised men ages 18 to 24 animate in a South African township. Half of the men be by accidental assign to be circumcised and the other partially dollop through a establish federation, left over uncircumcised. Researchers planned to study the men in choose of 21 months, but after one year the background bear out that circumcision be effective in reducing the risk of HIV dissipation. For both 10 uncircumcised men who contracted HIV, about three circumcised men contracted the virus, according to two unnamed society nearly new to with the research and a outline of the study. The data and sanctuary vdu side overseeing the research deem the findings subsequently imperative that it stopped the trial nine months untimely in apple-pie order to allow the control group to accept circumcision (Schoofs et al., Wall Street Journal, 7/5). In partnership with IAS, kaisernetwork.org will serve as the executive webcaster of the 3rd IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis and Treatment, providing rays by day online sounding coverage. Webcasts of select meeting and newsmaker interview will be at huge online.

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