1. ever think this through?
    Tom Tobin Tom Tobin United States says:
    January 11, 2012 at 4:19 PM

    Does it ever occur to anyone, to see if any of these 'universal circumcision' programs actually work?
    It seems that PlusNews, UNIAIDS, and the WHO are totally obsessed with circumcision.  They don't even think of it as surgery anymore, it is euphemistically called "voluntary medical male circumcision".  Everyone is falling all over themselves over the latest circumcision device, today it's "The PrePex system".
    These are boys playing with the latest transformer.
    Meanwhile, back in the real world, Ethiopia has close to 100% male circumcision.  Is their HIV infection rate approaching zero?  No, it's at a high 02.10 percent of the adult population.
    Even the utterly fantastic, too good to be true figure of a 60% reduction, well, if your seat belt worked 60% of the time, would that be a good thing?  Circumcision is false hope, impersonating a quick fix.
    Perhaps the money, time and effort would be better spent on something which actually prevented HIV infection?
    That would be condoms, and education, and changing prevalent attitudes.

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