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Health Officials Back Circumcision in AIDS Fight
Dec 13, 2006
by Robert Bazell
Top US agency says procedure effective way to stop HIV.
Circumcising adult men is an effective way to limit transmission of the virus that causes AIDS. The National Institutes of Health announced today that two clinical trials in Africa have been stopped because an independent monitoring board determined the treatment was so effective that it would be unethical to continue the experiment.
"We now have confirmation - from large, carefully controlled, randomized clinical trials - showing definitively that medically performed circumcision can significantly lower the risk of adult males contracting HIV through heterosexual intercourse," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease. "While the initial benefit will be fewer HIV infections in men, ultimately adult male circumcision could lead to fewer infections in women in those areas of the world where HIV is spread primarily through heterosexual intercourse."
Copyright 2006 NBC News
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category: News from Other Sources : AIDS News
contributed by Olga Zhuykova on 18 December 2006
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