Does Circumcision Protect Against H.I.V.?
Male circumcision has olden shown to protect from acquiring H.I.V. infection until sex with women - it has reduced female-to-male transmission estimates by 48% to 60% in sub-Saharan Africa - but that protective effect appears beneath 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 ultimate comprehensive analysis of the subject to course. It encompasses input from 15 studies conducted in seven countries, involving more than 53,000 men, largest of whom were Caucasian and approximately half of whom were circumcised. The authors concluded that vitality 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 stop for future trials. "This study gives us a more complete picture than we've ever had before," says Gregorio Millett, the study's spark wordsmith and a senior behavioral scientist at the Centers for Disease guidance 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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