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Circumcision in Africa: lack of hygiene puts lives at risk
While circumcision can most definitely reduce the risk of transmitting HIV, it is very important that it is carried out in conditions of strict hygiene! Because, as an American research team has revealed, Africans who are circumcised run an extra risk of infection.
Dr Devon Brewer and his colleagues in Seattle have studied the medical records of hundreds of young Kenyans, Lesothans and Tanzanians who have been circumcised. And, most importantly, circumcised “before their first sexual relations”.
Their conclusions are disturbing, to say the least. “We found that the young boys who were virgins and circumcised, were more often HIV seropositive than those who had not undergone this procedure”… To put it bluntly, they became infected at the moment or in the course of circumcision. These conclusions add special weight to the recommendations on the matter published yesterday by UNAIDS and the WHO.
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