Male circumcision reduces the risk of becoming infected with HIV, but does not provide complete protection

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The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and its Cosponsors, WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF and the World Bank, note with considerable interest today’s announcement by the US National Institutes of Health that two trials assessing the impact of male circumcision on HIV risk are being stopped on the recommendation of the NIH Data Safety and Monitoring Board (DSMB).

The two trials, funded by the US National Institutes of Health, were carried out in Kisumu, Kenya, among men aged 18-24 years and in Rakai, Uganda, among men aged 15-49 years. The trials, which completed enrolment of patients in 2005, were stopped by the DSMB evaluating the results of interim analyses. The role of the DSMB is to assess progress of the trials and recommend whether to continue, modify or terminate them. Although no detailed results have been released at this time, the National Institutes of Health statement makes it clear that the studies are being stopped because they revealed an approximate halving of risk of HIV infection in men who were circumcised.

 

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