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Role of Circumcision in Reducing HIV Risk Still Unclear
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 Vermund said the question of whether circumcision protects gay men from HIV won't be answered until a clinical trial is conducted. Such a study may require some participants to undergo circumcision to understand how it affects their risk of HIV.
Vermund, co-author of a commentary accompanying the new study, added: "It would be nice if the global community would say, 'Look, we continue to have a horrific problem in men who have sex with men around the world. We need to know whether circumcision is a tool that could reduce the incidents, and we're not going to know that unless we do the clinical trials.'"
Such a study would be difficult to launch in the United States, he said, but it might be possible in South America, where gay men are less likely to be circumcised.
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Learn more about HIV and circumcision from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Last updated 10/7/2008
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SOURCES: Gregorio A. Millett, M.P.H., senior behavioral scientist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta; Sten H. Vermund, M.D., director, Institute for Global Health, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn.; Oct. 8, 2008, Journal of the American Medical Association
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