Male Circumcision Does Not Protect Women From Contracting HIV/AIDS
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Male circumcision may help men from contracting the HIV virus but does not protect wives and sexual partners of infected men, researchers reported in an article posted on the lancet.
Research which has been going on, involving 922 HIV positive men in Uganda and 163 wives or female sex partners was called off after researchers felt disappointed with the results which they hoped might reduce HIV transmission to women, thus helping fight AIDS in Africa. HIV/AIDS has so far killed 25 million people and an estimated 33 million are infected, mostly living in africa.
Its interpretation is very straightforward: "Circumcision of HIV-infected men did not reduce HIV transmission to female partners over 24 months; longer-term effects could not be assessed."
The research only comes to conclude what a rational person must always do, which is "Condom use after male circumcision is essential for HIV prevention."
The summary of the report fails to indicate how many wives or female partners these men left infected during the entire duration of the research. If each infected man slept with one uninfected female, we have another group of 922 women infected with the HIV/AIDS virus probably unmonitored and not aware that they are HIV carriers busy out there spreading the disease.
