Circumcision Cuts AIDS Risk, AIDS Vaccine Alternative?
February 21st 2007 01:50
Circumcised men have up to 60% less chance of contracting AIDS from an infected woman than their ‘longer’ counterparts.
Of course nothings good without what we call ‘studies’, so lets get to the dirty details. French and South African researchers took 3000 male subjects between 18 and 24 and randomly selected half to be circumcised.
After following them for a year they found that for every 10 uncircumcised men contracting AIDS only 4 uncircumcised men did. This does not create protection against other STD’s, at all. One theory is that the circumcised portion has densely packed nerve endings which act as a receptor for the AIDS virus.
Research in India also backs up the findings in Africa, the same has been concluded in India, out 2000 Indian men with there was a 60% lower chance they had AIDS if they were circumcised.
What is quite spectacular about these findings is that a hypothetical AIDS vaccine would cut the chance of having AIDS by about 30%. In effect this beats out an AIDS vaccine by a significant margin at virtually no cost… except maybe pain.
These findings are in sharp contrast to previous studies concluding the opposite, unlike previous studies however this time the researchers looked at circumcision’s effects first hand rather than go through a series of hypothetical scenarios.
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Of course nothings good without what we call ‘studies’, so lets get to the dirty details. French and South African researchers took 3000 male subjects between 18 and 24 and randomly selected half to be circumcised.
After following them for a year they found that for every 10 uncircumcised men contracting AIDS only 4 uncircumcised men did. This does not create protection against other STD’s, at all. One theory is that the circumcised portion has densely packed nerve endings which act as a receptor for the AIDS virus.
Research in India also backs up the findings in Africa, the same has been concluded in India, out 2000 Indian men with there was a 60% lower chance they had AIDS if they were circumcised.
What is quite spectacular about these findings is that a hypothetical AIDS vaccine would cut the chance of having AIDS by about 30%. In effect this beats out an AIDS vaccine by a significant margin at virtually no cost… except maybe pain.
These findings are in sharp contrast to previous studies concluding the opposite, unlike previous studies however this time the researchers looked at circumcision’s effects first hand rather than go through a series of hypothetical scenarios.
*Source 1
*Source 2
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Comment by Francis
Passionate Apathy
Maybe after circumcision the scar tissue is thicker and harder for the virus to penetrate?
Comment by Ahmed
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PolyKicks
The AIDS vaccine would help out more, but right now the target of the AIDS vaccine is a drop of 30%, circumcision drops it by 60%, so it already beats out the hypothetical vaccine.
It would be cool to add them onto each other, have a 90% drop (if possible), as it stands circumcision might be the best solution to help control AIDS, that and education.