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HIV/AIDS researchers and advocates on Monday at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City aforesaid governments and health communities need to scale up male circumcision efforts to prevent HIV, particularly in at-risk countries in Eastern and sub-Saharan Africa, Reuters reports.
According to Reuters, three studies were cut short in 2006 later on they showed strong grounds that male circumcision could help slenderize a man's risk of HIV. At the conference, researchers and advocates aforementioned there has been short effort since then to encourage more than men to undergo the procedure (Tan, Reuters, 8/4). Supporters of circumcision say that sub-Saharan Africa, where two-thirds of the world's 33 1000000 HIV-positive people live, could benefit the most from more widespread circumcision. However, enthusiasm for the subroutine has been "tempered by worries that circumcision may face a backlash on cultural, religious or sexual grounds and may motivate men to abandon
