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Circumcising Babies Could Help Africa AIDS Fight
Jan. 19, 2010
Circumcising newborn boys to stop them becoming infected with the AIDS virus in later life is more cost-effective than circumcising adult men, Rwandan health experts said.
A study by Agnes Binagwaho and colleagues at Rwanda's health ministry found that the operation, which has been shown to cut dramatically the virus' transmission from women to men, is quicker, simpler and more cost-effective in newborns.
The findings suggest "Rwanda should be simultaneously scaling up circumcision across a broad range of age groups, with high priority to the very young," Binagwaho wrote in the study in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) Medicine journal.
© 2010 Thomson Reuters
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category: News from Other Sources : AIDS News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 21 January 2010
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