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South African President Encourages Circumcision to Lower HIV Risk

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Mike A

Circumcision to prevent HIV is a fraud. If it was so effective then the US that has a higher circumcision rate should also have a lower HIV rate this is just not the case. Condoms prevent HIV not genital mutilation!

May 21, 2010 Nicholasville KY

Bert

I have a problem with the practice of circumcision in general. What's worse here, is that these (primarily) hetero, and possibly even bi men (worse yet!) will still engage in unsafe raw sex because of the ALL TOO FALSE notion that they will now be safe from HIV transmission and not need to use condoms simply because they had the foreskin snipped off from their penises. This is nothing more then reckless and irresponsible policy at it's very worst and most dangerous! DON'T DO IT!

May 21, 2010 Harvard, IL

James Loewen

Circumcision to "prevent AIDS" is medical fraud, based on junk science. If circumcision were effective why do six African countries Cameroon, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, Rwanda, and Swaziland have higher incidences of ADIS in circumcised men? Why does the USA a country with a large circumcised male population have higher rates of HIV/AIDS than many countries with a mostly intact population? Genital mutilation does not prevent illness, it is an illness.

May 20, 2010 Vancouver, BC

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