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 ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Male circumcision, which has been shown to decrease the chances of contracting HIV, could save billions of dollars in AIDS-hit Africa, a new study has shown. Circumcision has ...

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 ...

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 ...

Criteria for inclusion in this review were established before the literature searches were carried out and included studies researching acceptability of MC as an HIV prevention method formally or as a ...

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 ...

Heterosexual men should be circumcised because of compelling evidence it reduces their chances of contracting HIV by up to 60 percent, U.N. health agencies said Wednesday. But men should still use ...

How male circumcision affects the transmission of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, will be a featured topic at the International AIDS Conference taking place this week in Toronto, Canada. Data ...

Male circumcision can prevent 65 per cent of new HIV infections in adult heterosexual men, but AIDS-hit countries are lagging in their efforts to promote it, researchers said Tuesday, dpa reported.

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 ...