Comments on: Global Gaze: Around the World for World AIDS Day http://thenewgay.net/2009/12/around-the-world-for-world-aids-day.html For Everyone Over the Rainbow Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:21:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Ron Low http://thenewgay.net/2009/12/around-the-world-for-world-aids-day.html#comment-19517 Ron Low Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:39:40 +0000 http://thenewgay.net/?p=18167#comment-19517 The coda to the large Africa circumcision trials is that in August they announced the men they cut were 50% MORE likely to transmit HIV to a partner. They're not laboring very hard to get that word out. Most of the US men who have died of AIDS were circumcised at birth. Even the cut men in the studies contracted HIV at a rate 6 times higher than the rate of new infections in African-American men. Nobody associated with the trials can explain the why of their findings and why it doesn't accord with the real world. They certainly didn't bother to find out if the results could be replicated by not circumcising; for example by wearing the foreskin rolled back off the glans so the mucosa could dry and numb as in a cut man. Foreskin feels REALLY good. It's HIS body, and it must be HIS fully informed decision. The guys lining up for circumcisions all over Afirca think they will be immune to HIV. This is going to be a disaster. The coda to the large Africa circumcision trials is that in August they announced the men they cut were 50% MORE likely to transmit HIV to a partner. They’re not laboring very hard to get that word out.

Most of the US men who have died of AIDS were circumcised at birth. Even the cut men in the studies contracted HIV at a rate 6 times higher than the rate of new infections in African-American men.

Nobody associated with the trials can explain the why of their findings and why it doesn’t accord with the real world. They certainly didn’t bother to find out if the results could be replicated by not circumcising; for example by wearing the foreskin rolled back off the glans so the mucosa could dry and numb as in a cut man.

Foreskin feels REALLY good. It’s HIS body, and it must be HIS fully informed decision. The guys lining up for circumcisions all over Afirca think they will be immune to HIV. This is going to be a disaster.

]]> By: Mark Lyndon http://thenewgay.net/2009/12/around-the-world-for-world-aids-day.html#comment-19335 Mark Lyndon Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:27:38 +0000 http://thenewgay.net/?p=18167#comment-19335 Circumcision is a dangerous distraction in the fight against AIDS. There are six African countries where men are more likely to be HIV+ if they've been circumcised: Cameroon, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, Rwanda, and Swaziland. Eg in Malawi, the HIV rate is 13.2% among circumcised men, but only 9.5% among intact men. In Rwanda, the HIV rate is 3.5% among circumcised men, but only 2.1% among intact men. If circumcision really worked against AIDS, this just wouldn't happen. We now have people calling circumcision a "vaccine" or "invisible condom", and viewing circumcision as an alternative to condoms. The one randomized controlled trial into male-to-female transmission showed a 54% higher rate in the group where the men had been circumcised btw. ABC (Abstinence, Being faithful, Condoms) is the way forward. Promoting genital surgery will cost lives, not save them. Circumcision is a dangerous distraction in the fight against AIDS. There are six African countries where men are more likely to be HIV+ if they’ve been circumcised: Cameroon, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, Rwanda, and Swaziland. Eg in Malawi, the HIV rate is 13.2% among circumcised men, but only 9.5% among intact men. In Rwanda, the HIV rate is 3.5% among circumcised men, but only 2.1% among intact men. If circumcision really worked against AIDS, this just wouldn’t happen. We now have people calling circumcision a “vaccine” or “invisible condom”, and viewing circumcision as an alternative to condoms.

The one randomized controlled trial into male-to-female transmission showed a 54% higher rate in the group where the men had been circumcised btw.

ABC (Abstinence, Being faithful, Condoms) is the way forward. Promoting genital surgery will cost lives, not save them.

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