Circumcision Reduces HIV Infections 76% in South African Study
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A circumcision program in a South African township reduced the rate of new HIV infections among men who had the procedure by 76 percent, according to the first data to show the effect of circumcision in the nation with the most AIDS cases.
More than 20,000 circumcisions were performed between 2007 and 2010 in Orange Farm, near Johannesburg, according to findings presented at an AIDS conference in Rome today. The percentage of circumcised men from 15 to 49 years of age increased to 49 percent from 16 percent in the period, said Bertran Auvert, a public-health professor at the University of Versailles outside of Paris, who presented the results.