I'm afraid its not laughable at all. It will inevitably be inflicted on non-consenting children. Even here in the states it's most commonly done on newborn boys without anesthetic!

Take a look at what's lost, and what's "gained": http://www.math.missouri.edu/~rich/MGM/primer.html

Don't repeat the mistakes of the USA. We're just now starting to admit to the destructive effects of this quackery.

It's very odd how an invitation-only meeting (of whom? they don't say) in Switzerland decided on this policy for all of Africa, on the basis of three non-blind trials conducted by circumcision-enthusiasts, that were cut short after 21 months. They keep saying circumcision cuts HIV by 50%. What they don't say is that it would take 55 circumcisions to prevent one HIV transmission in Uganda, on average. The non-circumcised control group in Uganda got less HIV than the circumcised experimental group in Kenya, so whatever you're doing in Uganda already (probably "zero grazing") works better than circumcision.