Comments on: HIV groups praise Obama for 2013 budget request http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/02/16/praise-for-obamas-hiv-funding-in-2013-budget/ the gay community's news source Thu, 23 May 2013 10:09:06 +0000 hourly 1 By: laurelboy2 http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/02/16/praise-for-obamas-hiv-funding-in-2013-budget/#comment-44072 laurelboy2 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:56:41 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=36001#comment-44072 Can’t beat George W. Bush on his international HIV efforts, can we?? Obama masks it by saying they’re now more efficient. Yeah, right…

]]> By: Hugh7 http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/02/16/praise-for-obamas-hiv-funding-in-2013-budget/#comment-44069 Hugh7 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:38:55 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=36001#comment-44069 There is no evidence that circumcision has ever saved a single life*. In the three African trials, 64 circumcised men out of 5,400 got HIV, 73 fewer than the control groups. That is the sum total of the “protection”. Several times as many dropped out, their HIV status unknown. Contacts were not traced so it isn’t even certain which of them got infected (hetero)sexually. There is evidence a significant number of the infections were from contaminated medical instruments.

*Of gay-trivia interest is the single possible exception, Roy Cohn’s New Zealand-born lover, who had himself circumcised to look American, got an infection there and had to wear a condom with Cohn

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