Islamic requirements of circumcision and fidelity have
merits
Johannesburg- The most promising way to stem Africa’s worst AIDS epidemics appears to be encouraging male circumcision and faithfulness to a single partner at a time, not promoting condom use or abstinence, a new look at AIDS studies across the continent suggests.
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But persuading people to have just one sex partner at a time and men to be circumcised could help end what Halperin called a “perfect storm” of the disease in southern Africa. Circumcision appears to cut HIV transmission by 60 percent to 75 percent.
He and other researchers, who are analyzing 20 years of AIDS studies from throughout the continent for potential answers to the continuing spread of HIV, have tried to “put aside intuitions, emotions, ideologies and look at the evidence is as coldhearted a way as we can,” he told an overflow crowd of doctors, medical researchers and AIDS activists at a meeting of the South African HIV Clinicians Society.
The result
has been some decidedly counterintuitive conclusions about AIDS in
Circumcision, fidelity touted in AIDS fight
Laurie Goering