AIDS-ravaged Malawi debates male circumcision
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AIDS-ravaged Malawi needs to make its own decision whether to adopt male circumcision in a bid to reduce levels of HIV infection, international experts said at a conference in Blantyre on Wednesday.
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Activists intensified pressure on African governments to outlaw female circumcision, a custom that has afflicted up to 130 million women and children across the world.
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Expectations that circumcision among men would reduce the risk of their female sexual partners becoming infected with AIDS were refuted by a new study.
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As an HIV conference opens, a study shows Aids deaths may be undermining southern Africa's democracy.
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An international conference on female genital mutilation in Africa ends with a fresh call to ban the practice.
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The directors of the two largest funds for fighting the disease said they would consider paying for circumcisions in high-risk countries.
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Activists are angry after Mozambique's Catholic Church leader says that some European-made condoms are deliberately infected with HIV.
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European condom firms trying "to finish the African people" says Mozambique's Catholic archbishop.
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Aids activist Zackie Achmat has joined the chorus of calls for TB treatment to be combined with HIV testing and anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment, echoing claims that it could save the lives of up to 500 000 HIV-infected Africans a year.
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Male circumcision halved a man's  risk of being infected by the virus that causes AIDS in  heterosexual intercourse, according to results of two large  clinical trials in Kenya and Uganda announced on Wednesday.
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South Africa's health minister took another controversial foray into the AIDS debate Thursday by questioning international medical studies that say circumcision helps reduce HIV infections in men.
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Southern African nations mulled ways to rope high-risk groups into the fight against HIV/AIDS in the world's worst-affected region as they started a three-day meeting in Malawi.
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JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 13 -- Two major studies released Wednesday confirmed  that circumcision can  dramatically slow the spread of HIV among African men, suggesting that widely offering the procedure could prevent millions of deaths in countries most seriously affected by AIDS, researchers said.
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Here in Sunny South Africa, the race is on for presidency of the ruling African National Congress. Below the fold, I relate one of the more entertaining campaign issues to have come to light: the Presidents penis, or more specifically, his foreskin.
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Male nurse Moshoeshoe Makhubu has helped in many circumcisions but is visibly nervous as he prepares to undergo the snip himself, a procedure he grudgingly admits may boost chances of remaining HIV-free.
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Male circumcision halved a man's risk of being infected by the virus that causes AIDS in heterosexual intercourse, according to results of two large clinical trials in Kenya and Uganda announced on Wednesday.
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South African Aids experts call for mass circumcision after studies showed it reduced HIV infections.