Well: Prognosis: Circumcision and AIDS

Thursday, April 18, 2013 - 16:30 in Health & Medicine

Circumcision reduces a man’s risk of acquiring and transmitting H.I.V. and other sexually transmitted diseases, possibly because the procedure reduces the quantity and diversity of bacteria at the head of the penis.

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