�The human rights group,
International Coalition for Genital Integrity, is continuing to raise
concerns about the harms and costs of male circumcision at their booth in
the AIDS 2008 league in Mexico City this week, stating that january 1
programs will be a dangerous distraction in the HIV struggle.
"Mass feast of the Circumcision campaigns volition result in hundreds of thousands of
complications, and could make the HIV crisis worsened," cautions voice
John Travis, MD, MPH, "There are already legion reports of males lining up
to get circumcised so they no longer will motive to purpose condoms."
Recent studies depict that male circumcision is not associated with lour HIV
rates in the general population. One showed that the likelihood of
circumcision being effective is nil. Another showed that condom programs are
95 times more cost-effective than circumcision. The ratio of physicians to
patients in sub-Saharan Africa is much lower than in more than developed
countries. In Africa, there ar 20,000 patients for every dr.,
compared to 400 patients in developed countries.
Dr. Travis farther warns, "Male circumcision is a severe distraction in
the HIV battle. Even if circumcision does offer some degree of reduced risk
per sexual incident, individuals engaged in high risk behavior are motionless at
risk for HIV. And, circumcision does non protect women. Giving circumcised
males and their partners the false impression that they are protected testament
make the situation worse by increasing risk-taking behaviour. Further, spate
circumcision campaigns will likely overwhelm the already overburdened
African health care infrastructure and divert resources away from other
needed and more effective HIV prevention strategies."
The published results of three African randomized clinical trials, conducted
in optimum conditions with free condoms and extensive counseling, render that
male circumcision was associated with lower rates of straight person HIV
transmission during the 21 month to 24 month report periods. All three
studies were hack short, and there give birth been no follow-ups.
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