To all those who blame islam for circumcision!!
WASHINGTON—Circumcising men cuts in half their risk of being infected with the AIDS virus, and could prevent hundreds of thousands or even millions of new infections, researchers said yesterday.
Circumcision worked so well the researchers stopped two large clinical trials in Kenya and Uganda to announce the results, although they cautioned the procedure doesn't make men immune to the virus.
Public health leaders hailed the results as pointing to a potentially powerful way to reduce HIV infections in Africa, the continent hardest hit by AIDS.
"It does have the potential to prevent many tens of thousands, many hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions of infections over coming years," Dr. Kevin De Cock, director of the World Health Organization's Department of HIV/AIDS, told reporters.
The link between circumcision and HIV prevention was noted as long ago as the late 1980s. The first major clinical trial, of 3,000 men in South Africa, found last year that circumcision cut the HIV risk by 60 per cent.
Still, many AIDS specialists were awaiting the National Institutes of Health's study results as a final confirmation.
"Male circumcision can lower both an individual's risk of infection, and hopefully the rate of HIV spread through the community," said AIDS expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Cells in the foreskin of the penis are particularly susceptible to the HIV virus, he explained
But circumcision is not perfect protection. Men must not quit using condoms, and it offers no protection from HIV acquired through anal sex or injection drug use, he noted.
Male circumcision is common at birth in Canada, but rare in large swaths of the population in sub-Saharan Africa, home to more than half the world's 40 million HIV-infected people.
The WHO plans a global meeting next year on policies promoting safe circumcision.
REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS
More on the subject http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/14/healthscience/web.1214aids.php
Bismillah Arrahman Arraheem In the name of Allah the most Gracious the most Merciful. I just got tired of this Western ideology where they one moment claim to be balanced and fair, and then treat Muslims like they are some kind of plague. So many incidents happen, but we humans have a short memory, So I decided to start this blog to remind us always of how fake some of calls for freedom made by the west are.
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