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Study Says Circumcision Reduces AIDS Risk by 70%.
- Source :
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Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition . 7/5/2005, Vol. 246 Issue 2, pA1-A8. 2p. 1 Chart. - Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- Reports that French and South African medical researchers have found that male circumcision reduces the risk that men will contact HIV through intercourse with infected women by seventy percent. Review of the difficulty in stopping the spread of HIV cases worldwide; Difficulty of developing a vaccine for the disease; Discussion of how the circumcision findings were so dramatic that the data and safety monitoring board overseeing the research halted the study in February on the grounds that it would be immoral to proceed without offering the uncircumcised control group the opportunity to undergo the procedure.
- Subjects :
- *CIRCUMCISION
*HIV infections
*DISEASES
*AIDS
*MEDICAL research
*PREVENTIVE medicine
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00999660
- Volume :
- 246
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition
- Publication Type :
- News
- Accession number :
- 17511057