Three trials now proof that circumcision prevents AIDS infection: scientists
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Trials showing that male circumcision more than halves the risk of HIV infection are published Friday, giving the seal of approval to calls for circumcision to be cautiously launched as an AIDS prevention strategy.
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Researchers have discovered that circumcised men have a lesser chance of acquiring HIV. One of the principal investigators explains how the information will be used.
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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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Scientists say they have uncovered an important clue to understanding the origins of the Aids epidemic.
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Final data from two clinical trials in Africa suggest that circumcision reduces a manâs risk of contracting H.I.V. by as much as 65 percent â more than suspected when the two trials were stopped because the results were so clear.
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AIDS-stricken Southern African  nations should develop a policy of mass male circumcision to  fight the disease, the head of the United Nations anti-AIDS  agency said on Tuesday.
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Millions of new HIV infections in Africa could be avoided if more men were circumcised, an International AIDS Society conference was told on Tuesday.
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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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RESEARCHERS have shown that it may be possible to block transmission of the AIDS virus from men to women, it was revealed yesterday.
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Scientists believe they are a step closer to understanding how to block the transmission of HIV.
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A study commissioned by Pope Benedict on the use of condoms to fight AIDS has passed its first hurdle and is now being reviewed by top theologians for possible use in a Papal document, a cardinal said on Tuesday.
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A chemical specially designed to thwart how the AIDS virus invades during sex offers scientists a new lead in the long quest for a vaginal gel that women could apply to protect themselves when men don't use a condom.
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Scientists in Hong Kong and China are working on an AIDS vaccine to protect against three variants of HIV sweeping across south and west China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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Indian scientists on Monday began the country's first human clinical trials of a vaccine designed to prevent AIDS.
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Over the next few months, officials in two US cities and several other countries will begin testing whether a popular AIDS drug can protect healthy people against HIV infection.
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Safe sex may prevent the growth of cervical and other cancers, according to researchers.
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Circumcision does not reduce sexual satisfaction and there should be no doubts about using it to combat HIV, a study says.