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Male circumcision may help men from contracting the HIV virus but does not protect wives and sexual partners of infected men, researchers reported in an article posted on the lancet.
Research which has been going on, involving 922 HIV positive men in Uganda and 163 wives or female sex partners was called off after researchers felt disappointed with the results which they hoped might reduce HIV transmission to women, thus helping fight AIDS in Africa. HIV/AIDS has so far killed 25 million people and an estimated 33 million are infected, mostly living in africa.
Its interpretation is very straightforward: “Circumcision of HIV-infected men did not reduce HIV transmission to female partners over 24 months; longer-term effects could not be assessed.”
The research only comes to conclude what a rational person must always do, which is “Condom use after male circumcision is essential for HIV prevention.”
The summary of the report fails to indicate how many wives or female partners these men left infected during the entire duration of the research. If each infected man slept with one uninfected female, we have another group of 922 women infected with the HIV/AIDS virus probably unmonitored and not aware that they are HIV carriers busy out there spreading the disease.
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The trial was stopped early because of futility. 92 couples in the intervention group and 67 couples in the control group were included in the modified ITT analysis. 17 (18%) women in the intervention group and eight (12%) women in the control group acquired HIV during follow-up (p=0·36). Cumulative probabilities of female HIV infection at 24 months were 21·7% (95% CI 12·7—33·4) in the intervention group and 13·4% (6·7—25·8) in the control group (adjusted hazard ratio 1·49, 95% CI 0·62—3·57; p=0·368).
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)60998-3/fulltext
This was an incredibly irresponsible study. First it was an unblinded study and completely randomized, it did not adhere to the protocols of scientific method and it was undertaken after another dubious study where the researchers manipulated data to achieve a desired outcome.
Now they act all surprised that 10 years later the spread of AIDS has risen!!!!!
A DEADLY outcome with no regard what so ever to the human beings that they were using as test subjects.
It was racist construct just like the Tuskegee experiment!
The Lancet should be held accountable for what they did, they should be made to compensate everyone of those people that they sentenced to death!!!!!!
Male circumcision does not protect men from AIDS, it has put many more at risk of AIDS because of the false belief that it is a substitute for condoms and education...it is reprehensible!
ARGH!!!!! Sorry, but misusing science for nefarious purposes is a betrayal of humanity and should condemned by every country in the world.
To quote you ”A DEADLY outcome with no regard what so ever to the human beings that they were using as test subjects. ”
A colleague said that if these scientists had experimented on the researchers themselves, they would have come to the same conclusion much earlier!
Scientists seem to be immune from prosecution but a case like this where protocols of scientific methods were not followed, responsible persons should be brought to book!
If the study is something iniquitous like weight loss, or allergy medicine they advertise on TV and in news papers and college campuses and they pay participants. If it is something nasty like shigella, syphilis or HIV, they comb the ally ways for vagrants to ”volunteer” for the protocols. Or worse, they go to an impoverished spot on the map, where they know the people will probably be uneducated and in desperate need of the money.
I wish that we could do something about that, write letters, protest, circulate petitions, something, anything! Who would we complain to? If the people who were participating in the study could be found, maybe a lawyer could file a class action suit for them. It is positively nauseating!
It is times like these that you pray to God to intervene in a situation seemingly beyond our control.