Can Circumcision help to reduce high incidences of HIV infection rate?!
Question:
Can Circumcision help to reduce high incidences of HIV infection rate?
South Africa health professional are debating pros and cons of starting a mass circumsion program as part of the fight against the increasing incidents of HIV infections. What is your view on this issue?
Answers:
No, not a chance.
The WHO is really incompetent on this one.
A lot of the information perpetuated about it preventing diseases is false.
The study that you are less succeptible to aids if you are circumcised is flawed. Here is a discussion of the report and its methodology by "Doctors Opposing Circumcision": http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.o... . A condom is still required to prevent transmission of STI's.
Have a read through their statement. It is very informative. It shows the methodological flaws and poor conclusion in the report that the WHO has jumped upon. Everything is aptly sourced.
"The medical literature is full of protective claims for various diseases, such as sexually transmitted disease , male and female cancers, and urinary tract infection. All such claims have been disproved."[ http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.o... ]
"The United States has one of the highest rates of male circumcision and also one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the developed world, suggesting that circumcision is having exactly the opposite effect. Conversely, Finland and Japan have some of the lowest rates of circumcision and also some of the lowest rates of HIV/AIDS."
Condoms have been proven to be an effective means of combatting AIDS.
A parent does not have a right to mutilate their childs genitals by the following UN conventions: the U.N. Universal Declaration on Human Rights, the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the U.N. International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights. These violations were brought to the attention of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in 2001 both orally and in writing by NOCIRC. However, the U.N. has yet to take action. [ http://www.mgmbill.org/un.htm ]
The vast majority of the world(83%) is not circumcised.
There is no good reason to perform male genital mutilation.
No medical institution in the developed world actually reccommends the practice.
Here is a video of the operation. Watch it if you want to learn more. Please do watch it.
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=35...
It is not just a little snip here and there. Watch the above video of a circumcision in progress.
The foreskin is the most sensitive part of the penis and therefore very significant during sexual intercourse. Circumcision removes as much as 75% of sensation [ http://www.nocirc.org/touch-test/bju_668... ].
The foreskin reduces the force required by the penis to enter the vagina. It also increases the sexual enjoyment of the female partner. Here is a study to back this up: http://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/ohar...
The foreskin keeps the glans soft and moist and protects it from trauma and injury. Without this protection, the glans becomes dry, calloused, and desensitized from exposure and chafing.
Specialized nerve endings in the foreskin enhance sexual pleasure.
The foreskin may have functions not yet recognized or understood.
Performing circumcision on a child can and does result in the deaths of children due to blood loss and/or failure of the immune system.
It can and does result in very significant scaring.
It can and does result in sexual problems later in life.
Circumcised males have a much higher rate of sexual dysfunction.
See these sites specifically:
http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.o...
http://www.mgmbill.org/
http://www.nocirc.org/
http://www.mothersagainstcirc.org/...
http://www.noharmm.org/
Here is a tracking of circumcision news articles which is kept very up to date:
http://www.cirp.org/news/
Have a look at this website:
http://www.cnn.com/health/9712/23/circum...
Have a look at these videos:
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=13...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...