Earlier Circumcision In Males May Be Effective Intervention To Slow Rates Of HIV And HPV Transmission In South Africa
Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 12:00
in Health & Medicine
According to a researcher at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and her colleagues in the Netherlands, earlier circumcision of males in South Africa may be a positive step in slowing the spread of both HIV and the human papillomavirus (HPV). Their commentary and data were published in a recent issue of the British medical journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases.