Big policy flaw. There is no medical reason for removing healthy living tissue from a human body whether it is the vulva, clitoris, foreskin, etc. One man who agreed to circumcision in adulthood once said of his new sexual experience, " it's like having sex with your elbow". If there is any policy expert who can "think", in Kenya, please tell people in a clear intelligible way that this practice( may not) but if it does take off, it's countereffects will be more far reaching)and will wipe out all gains achieved in the last few years.

This is a clear case of a disfunctional government, run by folks who are ill-informed to say the least, and would welcome any idea desperately because after all it's from a Robert Bailey and Stephen Moses. The male penis becomes blunt and as insensitive as a finger months after circumision. Imagine if the hood of the clitoris was removed and it's left to rub against the hard linen for life! Africa will for eternity remain a testing ground for both the "germ and the cure" and is destined for a steep abyss. This is a sad day for people who love life, have brains and can think! Will Africans ever chart their own paths out of their problems? Will we ever understand the big picture. DRs Moses and Bailey are going to return with a foresking "regrowth" idea in the future, and we will be on the world spotlight with a new alarming story about 5K rapes a day!Is it in our genes not to think!!!!!!

Alem, USA

Circumcision can only possibly help men who have unsafe sex with HIV+ partners, so why this bizarre obsession with genital surgery when we know that ABC works better than circumcision ever could? (ABC=Abstinence, Being Faithful, Condoms). The two continents with the highest rates of AIDS are the same two continents with the highest rates of male circumcision. Rwanda has almost double the rate of HIV in circed men than in intact men, yet they've just started a nationwide circumcision campaign. Other countries where circumcised men are *more* likely to be HIV+ are Cameroon, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, and Tanzania. Something is very wrong here. These people aren't interested in fighting HIV, but in promoting circumcision (or sometimes anything-but-condoms), and their actions will cost lives.

Latest news is that HIV+ men are more likely to transmit the virus to women if they are circumcised.

Female circumcision seems to protect against HIV too btw, but we wouldn't investigate cutting off women's labia, and then start promoting that.

It sounds like those in HIV/AIDs are so frustrated by their failure to deliver message and create prevention programs that work that they are resorting to the mutilation men as a form HIV prevention.

Once men are mutilated and told that they are now better protected from HIV who will be able to convince them that they must still use a condom to be fully protected - or is circumcision being presented as a substitute to circumcision?

Someone please explain this circumcision movement to me in a way that makes sense.