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Tanzania: Do Not Cloud Message
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The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)
EDITORIAL
7 August 2008
Posted to the web 7 August 2008
There has been some excitement at an international conference on HIV/Aids in Mexico that male circumcision can help prevent the spread of the pandemic.
Regrettably, some false hope is thus being indirectly cultivated that the cut is the means to keep the virus at bay.
The emerging statistics clearly call for caution. If the infection rate among circumcised men has declined from, say 7.5 to 6.5 per cent, on average, it is scant comfort, indeed. The grave danger still lurks out there, and it must be made clear to all that circumcision is no panacea.
There is need to continue waving the banners of abstinence, being faithful to one's partner or using condoms, because the naked reality is that no cure for Aids has been found.
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Circumcision is unhelpful if one's partner is infected. It's no good reason for people to dance around, clouding the message that the scourge is incurable.
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