La circunsición reduce el riesgo de contagio de VIH-SIDA

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Circumcision 'could cut HIV risk'

Circumcision had been practiced for many centuries

Male circumcision could significantly reduce the burden of HIV in Africa, a study suggests.

It concluded that the operation could avert about six million HIV infections and three million deaths in sub-Saharan Africa over the next 20 years.

The findings build on research, published in 2005, that suggested circumcision reduced HIV infection risk in heterosexual men by about 60%.

The research is published in the journal PLoS Medicine.

There is a tremendous potential for male circumcision to have an effect on the HIV epidemic Catherine Hankins

An international team of researchers used data on HIV infection rates and the prevalence of male circumcision across Africa to predict the potential impact.

Using mathematical modelling, they looked at what would happen if, over the next 10 years, all men in sub-Saharan Africa were circumcised.

They calculated that within a decade some two million new HIV infections and 300,000 deaths could be prevented. And in the ten years after that, a further 3.7 million infections and 2.7 million deaths could be avoided - with one in four of the deaths prevented being in South Africa.

The greatest reduction in infection would be for men, but this would have a knock-on effect for women..."