NEW STUDY: CIRCUMCISION INCREASES LIKELIHOOD OF STI & HIV INFECTIONS.

NEW STUDY:

CIRCUMCISION INCREASES LIKELIHOOD

OF STI & HIV INFECTIONS.

 

 

Just published a few days ago in The Journal of Sexual Medicine:

"We assessed the association between circumcision status and self-reported history of STI/HIV infection using logistic regressions to explore whether circumcision conferred protective benefit...

Compared with uncircumcised men, circumcised men have accumulated larger numbers of STI in their lifetime, have higher rates of previous diagnosis of warts, and were more likely to have HIV infection. Results indicate that being circumcised predicted the likelihood of HIV infection."

 

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Introduction. 

Circumcision among adult men has been widely promoted as a strategy to reduce human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission risk.

 

However, much of the available data derive from studies conducted in Africa, and there is as yet little research in the Caribbean region where sexual transmission is also a primary contributor to rapidly escalating HIV incidence.

 

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http://www.thewholenetwork.org/14/post/2012/08/new-study-circumcision-increases-likelihood-of-sti-hiv-infections.html 

 

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