circumcision

Male circumcision reduces risk of HIV transmission from women to men

...ed for the study. Initially they wereevaluated for circumcision status and HIV-negativity. Over the lengthof the s...edifference in probability of infection related to circumcision statusdid not change.In addition to the results on circumcision, another significant resultof the st...

PLoS Medicine publishes first trial of effect of male circumcision on HIV infection

...d results of the first trial of the effect of male circumcision on HIV infection, which some experts call "a landm...PLoS Medicine on October 25. The trial found that circumcision reduced the rate of new infections among heterosexual men in South Africa by about 60%. Because H...

Male circumcision reduces HIV risk, study stopped early

...due to preliminary results indicating that medical circumcision of men reduces their risk of acquiring HIV during ...ow, public health organizations have not supported circumcision as a method of HIV prevention due to a lack of randomized controlled trials. "With these findings...

Circumcision: A proven strategy to prevent HIV

Male circumcision significantly reduces the risk of acquiring HIV in...mcision. Half the men were randomly assigned to circumcision and half the men remained uncircumcised for two years. Participants received free HIV testing and...

Africa's first large-scale HIV vaccine study launches

...lations with women. As a result, access to medical circumcision also will be provided to male participants who choose to undergo the procedure. ...

Male circumcision overstated as prevention tool against AIDS

...s, peer-reviewed scientific journal PLoS ONE, male circumcision is found to be much less important as a deterrent ...rtificial weighting was removed Talbott found that circumcision was no longer statistically significant in explaining the variance in AIDS infection rates across th...