Message is circumcision and condoms to be safe.
There is a report on the blog PNG Attitude that should not have been published as it gives a totally misleading understanding of circumcision.
The writer fails to understand the concept of the 2 symbolic doors causing infection. He seems to believe that circumcision is being promoted as 100% safe. Not true.
Comment under discussion is below and written by Hugh Young. AIDS Holistics supports the report by Joe Wasia. Please click:
Male circumcision for AIDS prevention should be prioritised
There is a report on the blog PNG Attitude that should not have been published as it gives a totally misleading understanding of circumcision.
The writer fails to understand the concept of the 2 symbolic doors causing infection. He seems to believe that circumcision is being promoted as 100% safe. Not true.
Comment under discussion is below and written by Hugh Young. AIDS Holistics supports the report by Joe Wasia. Please click:
Male circumcision for AIDS prevention should be prioritised
Door 2 opens to the HIV with rashes, infections and genital herpes. Please click:
He expresses the view that condoms are safer than circumcision. That shows complete lack of understanding.
Correct advice is that condoms are always to be used by all men including medically circumcised men to protect them from infections through the symbolic Door 2.
How does circumcision increase risk of infection to women? Once HIV infected semen is ejaculated, the woman is infected. What can be the possible effect of circumcision?
AIDS Holistics offers to vet any medical AIDS reports submitted to PNG Attitude. If we are not sure, there are several PNG doctors who can offer advice. Much of our understanding comes from Google reports and clinical textbooks.
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How does circumcision increase risk of infection to women? Once HIV infected semen is ejaculated, the woman is infected. What can be the possible effect of circumcision?
AIDS Holistics offers to vet any medical AIDS reports submitted to PNG Attitude. If we are not sure, there are several PNG doctors who can offer advice. Much of our understanding comes from Google reports and clinical textbooks.
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The fall in HIV in Uganda had nothing to do with circumcision - the campaign hadn't started yet - and everything to do with "zero grazing" (one partner at a time).
This is because the virus is at its most transmissible just after it has been received.
The three African circumcision trials (including Auvert's) are very dubious. Less than two years after circumcising a total of 5,400 men, 64 of them had HIV, 73 fewer than similar groups told to wait.
That is the whole basis of the "60% reduction" claim. But 327 circumcised men were "lost from study", their HIV status unknown, so anything is possible.
Another study in Uganda started to find that circumcising men increases the risk to women, but it was cut short before that could be confirmed.
Condoms protect both partners much more than circumcision can, even in theory.