HIV_And_Circumcision

HIV And Circumcision Circumcision and HIV The parents of a newborn baby boy will make a lot of decisions for their child. They will decide what sort of discipline they will use to raise their boy, and they will decide what sort of morals they will instill in their newborn. Many parents will discuss and decide on these issues before the child is born; but many parents neglect to discuss and research the very first decision they may have to make for their baby boy. Should the infant son be circumcised' Circumcision is the surgical removal of the foreskin, the sheath of tissue that surrounds, lubricates, and protects the head of the penis. Infant circumcision was not widespread until the beginning of the century in the United States when it was promoted as a medical procedure with an odd variety of purposes: to discourage masturbation, to enhance cleanliness, and to prevent disease. Most of these so-called medical procedures for circumcision have proven to be propaganda; but researchers that dismissed the idea that circumcision can reduce the spread of HIV may be about to change their minds. For more than ten years, AIDS researchers studying the disastrous spread circumcision, hiv, spread, foreskin, rate, medical, infection, sex, risk, rates, newborn, cells, researchers, reduce, high, evidence, africa, advocates, years, world, variety, transmitted, tissue, thailand, sexually, said, research, philippines, percent, parents, one, make, low, infections, highest