The African nation of Kenya is attempting to get more than 1 million men between the ages of 15 and 49 circumcised by the end of 2013. If successful, this could be a groundbreaking effort in the fight ...

SYDNEY, Australia — A U.S. health expert urged governments worldwide today to endorse circumcision to slow the spread of HIV, saying men without the procedure have a greater risk of contracting the ...

TORONTO, Aug. 15 -- Circumcision, which lowers a man's risk of becoming infected with HIV, may soon join the growing arsenal of weapons against the AIDS epidemic. But to do so will require overcoming ...

A decade ago, Dr. Daniel Halperin pushed his then-controversial theory that male circumcision drastically reduces the risk of contracting HIV and AIDS at a local scientific conference. It didn’t go so ...

KENYA: It has been established that male circumcision can reduce HIV and Aids transmission by about 60 per cent. This finding is based on clinical studies in different parts of Africa on the ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China is still looking at evidence that male circumcision can play an important role in fighting the spread of AIDS and is not currently considering such a campaign, a senior ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - AIDS-stricken Southern African nations should develop a policy of mass male circumcision to fight the disease, the head of the United Nations anti-AIDS agency said on Tuesday.

In recent years, scientific studies have showed that circumcised men have a dramatically lower risk of contracting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Many African governments are contemplating ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A South African AIDS expert Saturday advocated male circumcision as the best available “vaccine” against the virus in his country, where an estimated 6 million people are ...

The New England Journal of Medicine recently published a report about the health benefits of circumcision. After studying the sexual patterns of 3500 Ugandan men researchers from John Hopkins ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. KENYA: It has been established that male circumcision can reduce HIV and Aids transmission by about 60 per cent. This ...