More Reports and Research On Uncircumsized Men and HIV

Published: August 21, 2007, 6:39 pm

Tags: news, research, public policy, health care, uncut, circumcision, science, aids, hiv

In Tuesday's New York Times there's an article ("Washing After Sex May Raise H.I.V. Risk") on a counter-intuitive result from a study on uncircumcised men in Uganda: immediate washing of the penis after vaginal sex increased the rate of HIV transmission from female to male sexual partners. A summary of the article by the invaluable Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report says:For the study, Fredrick Makumbi of the Makerere University Institute of Public Health and colleagues examined 2,552 uncircumcised, HIV-negative men ages 15 to 29 in the Rakai district of Uganda. Eighty-three percent of the participants said they washed their penises with all sex partners, the Times reports. The researchers asked the men when and how they washed their penises -- including if they washed with or without cloths -- after sex at the beginning of the study and at six, 12 and 24 months after the study began. According to Ronald Gray, a study co-author and professor of population and family planning at Johns

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