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Nations to back male circumcision over HIV
By Our Foreign Staff
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2209173,00.html

FIVE southern African countries that have been hit hard by the Aids pandemic want to encourage men to be circumcised after a study indicated that the procedure reduced dramatically the risk of HIV infection.

Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Tanzania and Zambia were holding talks with the UN Aids agency on making circumcision more accessible to men as part of HIV prevention efforts, a UN Aids adviser said.

A three-year study involving 3,274 men aged 18 to 24 in a South African township suggested that circumcision reduced the risk of contracting HIV by 60 per cent. “What we showed was a dramatic effect. Those who were circumcised were protected against acquiring HIV,” said Adrian Purven, the deputy director of the Institute for Communicable Diseases in South Africa, who led the study. So conclusive were the results that the researchers stopped the study in July and offered circumcision to all the men taking part.

UN Aids officials have launched two similar studies in Uganda and Kenya involving nearly 8,000 men. Interim results this month could establish the use of male circumcision in fighting against Aids. “This could be revolutionary for prevention but it is important to say this is not the silver bullet,” said Mr Lundstrom, who emphasised that condoms still offered the best protection against HIV.

Copyright 2006 Times Newspapers Ltd.


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