Below you will find several articles that shed light on the African studies, which I hope you will share with your readers. World health organizations should seriously consider how, if the African HIV/circumcision studies are accepted without question, billions of dollars could be wasted promoting a surgery in Africa that is of questionable value and which could cause more deaths. That would be unconscionable.
If circumcision truly helped prevent HIV, then circumcised men would not need to worry about other methods of HIV prevention. Because they can't rely on circumcision alone for protection, that indicates that circumcision is really not as effective as some claim it to be. An intact (not circumcised) male who does not engage in risky sexual behavior is less likely to acquire HIV/AIDS than a circumcised male who engages in risky sexual behavior. Behavior is the key component in
preventing HIV.
If circumcision were truly effective, circumcised men would not be acquiring and dying of AIDS, but sadly that is not the case. We should not be deceiving the African people into thinking that circumcision will offer them protection from HIV/AIDS when it will not. For many, this misinformation and the false sense of security that it provides could prove deadly to them.
The United States has a long history and experience with circumcising millions of men in the past century under hygienic medical conditions. This has NOT prevented circumcised males from acquiring HIV. Instead, the United States has one of the highest rates of HIV in the developed world, despite the fact that male circumcision in the U.S. has been widespread.
Sincerely,
Petrina Fadel, Director
Catholics Against Circumcision
http://www.catholicsagainstcircumcision.org/
New York, USA