I don't know how to post links to headlines but on the Reuters Health section of my yahoo homepage I just read an article about circumsion that was interesting in light of our recent discussion. I pasted it on the old board but I don't know how many people are checking back there. Here are the first couple of paragraphs. It kind of adds a new dimension to the debate!

Circumcision may stop millions of HIV deaths: study By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent
30 minutes ago



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Circumcising men routinely across Africa could prevent millions of deaths from AIDS, World Health Organization researchers and colleagues reported on Monday.

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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, some two million new infections and around 300,000 deaths could be avoided.

Researchers believe circumcision helps cut infection risk because the foreskin is covered in cells the virus seems able to easily infect. The virus may also survive better in a warm, wet environment like that found beneath a foreskin.

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maggie

Interesting, IUDs have a hightened risk too b/c of the string.

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Interesting! Thank you for posting this! I wonder if that is true about all STD'S?

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