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Apr. 12th, 2007
What the hell?
Apr. 12th, 2007 02:07 pmThe World Health Organization has officially recommended circumcision as a method of preventing AIDS, after studies in Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa showed that circumcision lowered rates of infection by 60%.
Circumcision lowered rates of infection because people in Africa don't clean themselves properly. The way to fix that is to encourage good hygiene, not to waste AIDS relief money on chopping off body parts. And the New York health department is considering promoting circumcision as a method of AIDS prevention. And of course people are going to look at that, get circumcised, and stop using condoms because hey, they don't need to anymore. (At least the mayor has the right idea.)
How depressing.
Circumcision lowered rates of infection because people in Africa don't clean themselves properly. The way to fix that is to encourage good hygiene, not to waste AIDS relief money on chopping off body parts. And the New York health department is considering promoting circumcision as a method of AIDS prevention. And of course people are going to look at that, get circumcised, and stop using condoms because hey, they don't need to anymore. (At least the mayor has the right idea.)
How depressing.