GLOBAL: Male circumcision does not protect women

web JOHANNESBURG, 17 July 2009 (PlusNews) – New research suggests that circumcising HIV-positive men does not reduce the risk of their female partners becoming HIV-infected. The findings, reported on 17 July in the British medical journal, The Lancet, emerged from a clinical trial in Rakai District, southern Uganda, involving 922 HIV-infected men and 163 of their HIV-negative female partners. Half the men were circumcised at the start of the two-year trial; the other half, who made up the control group, were circumcised at the end of it. Their uninfected female partners were followed up after six, 12 and 24 months to determine whether they had acquired HIV from their male partners. Male…

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