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The South African National Communication Survey on HIV/AIDS, 2009 found that 15% of adults across age groups “believe that circumcised men do not need to use condoms”.
http://www.info.gov.za/issues/hiv/survey_2009.htm

From the committee of the South African Medical Association Human Rights, Law & Ethics Committee :
“the Committee expressed serious concern that not enough scientifically-based evidence was available to confirm that circumcisions prevented HIV contraction and that the public at large was influenced by incorrect and misrepresented information. The Committee reiterated its view that it did not support circumcision to prevent HIV transmission.”

The one randomized controlled trial into male-to-female transmission showed a 54% higher rate in the group where the men had been circumcised btw:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)60998-3/abstract

ABC (Abstinence, Being faithful, and especially Condoms) is the way forward. Promoting genital surgery will cost African lives, not save them.

Cheers

Jason Boies

Erick Kinuthia

Experimental Mouse

From the USAID report “LEVELS AND SPREAD OF HIV SEROPREVALENCE AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS: EVIDENCE FROM NATIONAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS”
“There appears no clear pattern of association between male circumcision and HIV prevalence—in 8 of 18 countries with data, HIV prevalence is lower among circumcised men, while in the remaining 10 countries it is higher.”

The South African National Communication Survey on HIV/AIDS, 2009 found that 15% of adults across age groups “believe that circumcised men do not need to use condoms”.

From the committee of the South African Medical Association Human Rights, Law & Ethics Committee :
“the Committee expressed serious concern that not enough scientifically-based evidence was available to confirm that circumcisions prevented HIV contraction and that the public at large was influenced by incorrect and misrepresented information. The Committee reiterated its view that it did not support circumcision to prevent HIV transmission.”

The one randomized controlled trial into male-to-female transmission showed a 54% higher rate in the group where the men had been circumcised btw:

ABC (Abstinence, Being faithful, and especially Condoms) is the way forward. Promoting genital surgery will cost African lives, not save them.

The South African National Communication Survey on HIV/AIDS, 2009 found that 15% of adults across age groups “believe that circumcised men do not need to use condoms”.
http://www.info.gov.za/issues/hiv/survey_2009.htm

From the committee of the South African Medical Association Human Rights, Law & Ethics Committee :
“the Committee expressed serious concern that not enough scientifically-based evidence was available to confirm that circumcisions prevented HIV contraction and that the public at large was influenced by incorrect and misrepresented information. The Committee reiterated its view that it did not support circumcision to prevent HIV transmission.”

The one randomized controlled trial into male-to-female transmission showed a 54% higher rate in the group where the men had been circumcised btw:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)60998-3/abstract

ABC (Abstinence, Being faithful, and especially Condoms) is the way forward. Promoting genital surgery will cost African lives, not save them.

The latest review damning the “circumcision prevents HIV” studies is in the (Australian) Journal of Law and Medicine last month. The ENTIRE basis of the claim is 73 out of 5,400 circumcised men who didn’t get HIV in less than two years, who MIGHT have if they hadn’t been circumcised, while 64 circumcised men DID get it.

G. Boyle and G. Hill unravel some of the many reasons that may not be cause and effect:
researcher expectation bias;
participant expectation bias;
inadequate double blinding;
lead-time bias;
selection and sampling bias;
attrition bias; and
early termination.
Contacts were not traced so we don’t even know which if any of the men got HIV from women or even by sex. Non-sexual transmission is a large and unaddressed issue in Africa, and male-male transmission goes largely denied and underreported.

Women are at several times greater risk than men, and circumcision does NOTHING to protect them. It may even INcrease the risk to women, according to a Ugandan study (Wawer, et al., Lancet 374:9685, 229-37) it was cut short for no good reason (nothing they could then do or not do would prevent any new infections) before that could be confirmed.

Circumcision does nothing to protect men who have sex with men, a large and unacknowledged risk in Africa (expecially not in places where even admitting to being gay is dangerous).

http://www.salem-news.com/fms/pdf/2011-12_JLM-Boyle-Hill.pdf

From the USAID report “LEVELS AND SPREAD OF HIV SEROPREVALENCE AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS: EVIDENCE FROM NATIONAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS”- Findings from the 18 countries with data present a mixed picture of the association between male circumcision and HIV prevalence
(Table 9.3) . . . In 10 of the countries—Cameroon, Guinea, Haiti, Lesotho, Malawi, Niger,
Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe—HIV prevalence is higher among circumcised men.”
(page 109) See:

http://www.measuredhs.com/pubs/pdf/CR22/CR22.pdf

The one randomized controlled trial into male-to-female transmission showed a 54% higher
rate among females in the group where the men had been circumcised. See:

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)60998-3/abstract

How the circumcision solution in Africa will increase HIV infections
Robert S. Van Howe, Michelle R. Storms
DOI: 10.4081/jphia.2011.e4 | Published: 2011-02-11 15:59:52

http://www.publichealthinafrica.org/index.php/jphia/article/view/jphia.2011.e4/pdf_22

“Langerin is a natural barrier to HIV-1 transmission by Langerhans cells” (Nature
Medicine- 4 March 2007). This study states, “Langerhans cells (LCs) specifically express
Langerin . . . LCs reside in the epidermis of the skin and in most mucosal epithelia,
such as the ectocervix, vagina and foreskin . . . ” Removal of the foreskin (male
circumcision) removes the langerhans cells that express langerin, the natural barrier to
HIV-1 transmission.

See: http://www.cirp.org/news/healthday2007-03-05/

A study in the March, 2007 issue of the “Annals of Epidemiology” found that circumcision
is “likely to spread” HIV. See:

http://www.afrol.com/articles/24469

A study published on June 20, 2007 found that male circumcision is overstated as a
prevention tool against AIDS. This study found that the key to understanding the global
spread of AIDS is the size of the infected prostitute community around the world. See:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-06/plos-mco062007.php

Below are several articles that shed light on the circumcision/HIV issue. If
circumcision truly helped prevent HIV, then circumcised men would not need to worry about
other methods of HIV prevention. The false sense of security that circumcision provides
could increase the incidence of HIV. Already reports are coming out from Africa about
men who think they cannot get HIV because they have been circumcised. One Reuters story
reports the comments of young men in Africa undergoing circumcision. “”All I know is
that when I am circumcised, it will not be as easy for me to get infected with HIV/AIDS,”
said one young man, Kizeja Michael, as he lined up for the operation. People who are
circumcised are not able to get AIDS,” said his friend, Peter Kibatsi.

It is ill advised for circumcision to be championed for large numbers of men when 98.15%
of the men in the African studies’ control group who were not circumcised did NOT
contract HIV after 24 months. Circumcision did nothing to protect the 22 circumcised men
who acquired HIV in the Rakai, Uganda study. In addition, researchers made no attempt to
determine the HIV status of the female partners of the men in these studies, a glaring
omission that negates the findings.

An intact (not circumcised) male who does not engage in risky sexual behavior is far less
likely to acquire HIV/AIDS than a circumcised male who engages in risky sexual behavior.
Behavior is the key component in preventing HIV, not circumcision.

The United States has a long history and experience with circumcising millions
of men in the past century under hygienic medical conditions. This has NOT prevented
circumcised males from acquiring HIV. Instead, the United States has one of the highest
rates of HIV in the developed world, despite the fact that male circumcision in the U.S.
has been widespread here. This is in contrast to Europe and other locations around the
world where male circumcision is rare and HIV rates are relatively low.

If the African studies had not been stopped early and long-term results had been
obtained, the HIV infection rate might very well have become statistically insignificant
between the circumcised and non-circumcised groups. The number of cases in each period
for each group is small, so their relative sizes are affected greatly by random
variation. It appears from the data that the rate of infection is lower among the
circumcised men in the first 18 months following circumcision, but that there’s little
difference beyond 18 months. (And it should be noted that the circumcised men were
required to refrain from sexual activity for six weeks during the healing process, and
the intact men were not.)

The decision to terminate the studies early prevented any future comparison of the
progression of HIV in the circumcised and control groups and the very real possible
invalidation of the alleged “proof”. The decision to circumcise the control group removed
any future comparison between the circumcised and a control group. In valid research, a
control group is necessary as a comparison. Several of the researchers have a religious
or cultural bias in favor of the practice and appear to be more interested in promoting
circumcision than they are in preventing HIV. (Daniel Halperin’s grandfather was a mohel,
or Jewish ritual circumciser.)

One man in Africa appears to have more common sense than many of those promoting
circumcision. “Jackson Dlamini, 25, a strapping man taking a break from weight training
at a local gym, told IRIN he was considering circumcision as a way to protect himself
from HIV/AIDS. When told that counsellors at Mbabane Government Hospital would advise him
to carry on using condoms even after the operation, Dlamini said, “It is painful to get
circumcised. If I have to wear a condom anyway, what is the point?”"

“HIV infection and circumcision: cutting through the hyperbole” THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL
SOCIETY FOR THE
PROMOTION OF HEALTH, Volume 125, Number 6: Pages 259-265, November 2005
http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/HIV/vanhowe2005a/

Why Most Published Research Findings are False – John Ioannidis
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1182327
Published online 2005 August 30

Why Is HIV So Prevalent In Africa? – Michael Fumento
http://www.fumento.com/disease/aids2005.html

Danish Study- Male circumcision leads to a bad sex life- November 14, 2011

http://sciencenordic.com/male-circumcision-leads-bad-sex-life

Circumcised men have more difficulties reaching orgasm, and their female partners
experience more vaginal pains and an inferior sex life, a new study shows.

The South African National Communication Survey on HIV/AIDS, 2009 found that 15% of adults across age groups “believe that circumcised men do not need to use condoms”.
http://www.info.gov.za/issues/hiv/survey_2009.htm

From the committee of the South African Medical Association Human Rights, Law & Ethics Committee :
“the Committee expressed serious concern that not enough scientifically-based evidence was available to confirm that circumcisions prevented HIV contraction and that the public at large was influenced by incorrect and misrepresented information. The Committee reiterated its view that it did not support circumcision to prevent HIV transmission.”

The one randomized controlled trial into male-to-female transmission showed a 54% higher rate in the group where the men had been circumcised btw:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)60998-3/abstract

ABC (Abstinence, Being faithful, and especially Condoms) is the way forward. Promoting genital surgery will cost African lives, not save them.

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