Sunday, March 18, 2007
Use It and You May Lose It
A few posts back i summarized an article that explained that circumcision can cut the risks of becoming infected with the HIV virus in half. Well According to Donald McNeil of the New York Times in his article "Healing: A Caveat on Circumcision as AIDS Prevention" published on March 13 of 2007, circumscion can have a negative effect on others. It is still said that circumcision still helps protect a man from catching the AIDS virus but it doesn't work in preventing spreading it to others. If a man becomes infected with the virus and then becomes circumcised, he should refraim from sex until he has fully healed. Otherwise the risk of spreading the virus to his partner is greater. It is proven that women who had sex with recently circumcised men who didnt wait to heal were at a higher risk of catching the virus.
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In my international studies class, we learned that many nations that are striecken with AIDS also perform female circumcision, in which case they use unclean tools to circumcise the young girls. This increases the amount of girls with AIDS rather than decresaing it.
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