AIDS-ravaged Swaziland gears up for circumcision fever
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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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Circumcision, as supporters call it, or female genital mutilation, as opponents refer to it, was suddenly a ferocious focus of debate in Egypt this summer.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - Leaders of the world's major powers will turn their attention to Africa on Friday and are widely expected to announce a $60 billion pledge to fight AIDS and other killer diseases.
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South Africa, burdened with one of  the world's major HIV/AIDS epidemics, unveiled plans on  Thursday for its biggest AIDS vaccine trial.
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Johannesburg, AIDS has killed 1.7 million people in South Africa, including two children of the country&#39;s Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, reports Xinhua.
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Circumcision significantly reduces the risk of contracting the AIDS virus, according to two new studies released and that could have significant implications in the fight against the deadly disease.
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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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Circumcision can dramatically cut the rate of HIV infection in heterosexual men, results from two African trials show.
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AIDS-ravaged Malawi launched a two-day national debate on Wednesday on whether to adopt male circumcision in a bid to reduce the levels of HIV infection in the southeast African country.
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THURSDAY, Dec. 14 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers in Africa said Wednesday that they found that circumcision is such a good defense against HIV infection that they shut down two studies early, and instead offered all participants a chance to be circumcised.
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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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The killer disease AIDS has posed a disastrous threat to South Africa as the annual number of deaths due to AIDS is projected to peak with 487,320 in the year 2008.
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HIV/Aids is fast acquiring a feminine face in African countries like Kenya, as biological vulnerability, poverty and sexual violence join to raise infection rates for young women and girls, a report from UNAids has warned.
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Two medical studies released yesterday confirm that widespread circumcision of adult men is a powerful weapon against HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa, a finding that appears destined to reshape AIDS prevention strategies.
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TUGELA FERRY, South Africa  - In a country where AIDS kills 900 people each day, full hospitals and beleaguered doctors are nothing new.
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With almost 25 million Africans infected, 2.8 million new infections last year and 2.1 million deaths, the statistics are as grim as ever as Africa readies for World AIDS Day on December 1.
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Circumcision helps protect men from getting the AIDS virus but may make an already-infected man more likely to infect a woman if he does not let his penis heal completely, researchers said on Tuesday.