According to new reports conducted in several African countries, circumcision helps to prevent sexually transmitted infections including HIV in heterosexual men. Circumcision may reduce the danger of HIV by 35% and other STDs by as much as 28%, but doesn’t safeguard against syphilis.
The World Health Organization states on their internet site that throughout the world almost a million people acquire a “sexually transmitted infection (STI) including the human immunodeficiency virus commonly known as HIV” every day. The WHO keeps to campaign for a worldwide response to HIV and education in the use of condoms and other protective barrier methods.
This report printed in the New England Journal of Medicine involved the following of 3,393 HIV negative heterosexual adolescences and men. Half were randomly chosen to receive a circumcision at the start of the study as the remainder had the procedure 2 years later. Each of the participants in the study were provided condoms and HIV counseling. Herpes infection was discovered in only 114 circumcised men while 153 uncircumcised men were infected.
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