Friday, March 27, 2009

SF Sexual Health Examiner: Circumcision reduces the sexual tranmission of HIV, herpes, and HPV

"Circumcision reduces the sexual tranmission of HIV, herpes, and HPV

An article published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine provides more information about the potential role of male circumcision in the global control of sexually transmitted diseases. More than 5,000 uncircumcised men in Uganda were enrolled to study the effectiveness of circumcision in reducing transmission of genital herpes (HSV-2) and the genital wart virus (HPV, or human papilloma virus)."

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