Does Circumcision Protect Against H.I.V.?
Male circumcision has out-of-style shown to protect men from acquiring H.I.V. infection throughout sex with women - it has reduced female-to-male transmission proportions by 48% to 60% in sub-Saharan Africa - but that protective effect appears without reliable among men who have sex with men, according to a new meta-analysis published Oct. 7 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (J.A.M.A.).
The review is the uttermost comprehensive analysis of the subject to reign. It encompasses compilations from 15 studies conducted in seven countries, involving more than 53,000 men, complete of whom were Caucasian and approximately half of whom were circumcised. The authors concluded that journey circumcised reduced a man's risk of acquiring H.I.V. by 14%. That finding was statistically nonsignificant, but the authors say it should be regarded as a launching count for future trials. "This study gives us a more complete picture than we've ever had before," says Gregorio Millett, the study's first park writer and a senior behavioral scientist at the Centers for Disease weight and Prevention (CDC). "The next step is to design better essence studies to see if there is an association we aren't detecting."
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