Several clinical trials have demonstrated the benefit of circumcision in reducing the risk of HIV infection. One of the explanations put forward is that the foreskin is rich in a particular type of cell the HIV virus likes to infect. By getting rid of the foreskin, the risk of HIV infection is reduced.
If this is true then the size of the foreskin should matter too, with a higher risk of HIV infection for those with a larger foreskin than those with a smaller one. This is exactly what a new …

Healthy People by Grey a Turkish advertising agency based in Istanbul created this advert for Ismet Dural a circumciser who owns a clinic and wanted a cheap way to advertised his business in his local area.
“We created a poster with perforated edges. This way the consumer was also participating to the idea. The part which remained in the consumer hand was also the circumcised part which included Ismet Dural’s contact details”
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Reporting on the role of circumcision in the “combination prevention” discussed during the 2008 AIDS conference, Roger Peabody from Aidmaps noted that “In response to several criticisms of the recommended roll-out of circumcision, Catherine Hankins from UNAIDS insisted that circumcision had to be seen as part of combination prevention” – in other words, it is one extra choice, rather than the replacement for another intervention.”
But in the same session, Mogomotsi Supreme Mafalapitsa noted that circumcision is often imbued with religious and cultural meanings, and very often forms part of …

A substudy of the randomised controlled trial (RCT) of male circumcision as an HIV prevention method in Kisumu, Kenya has found that there were virtually no differences in risk behaviour or in STI infections between circumcised and uncircumcised men (lay discussion).In the last two years three RCT of male circumcision where stopped prematurely when interim analysis showed that circumcision was highly efficacious in reducing HIV incidence (that is the number of new cases observed over a period of time).
However, concerns were raised that the perceived protective effect of circumcision would …