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AIDS in UgandaFrom: Louana (westsidebirthservice@juno.com)Mon Jan 29 07:59:00 2007
Awhile back the report on circumcision reducing the AIDS incidence in Uganda was posted here. The latest from Doctors Without Borders, 11/06--- "In the fight against AIDS, Uganda has often been presented as a model, not without ideological ulterior motive. The national prevelance has been reduced from 28% in 1988 to 6.4% in 2005, even if large regional disparities still persist. This success has been attributed by some to abstinence and fidelity, whereas the credit should rather go to increased use of condoms and the death of a large number of patients. The moralistic approach to prevention has concrete repercussions. Last year there was a period when Uganda ran out of condoms. And between 2003 and 2005 the prevelance of AIDS in the country went back up from 5.6% to 6.4%. . . " The circumcision report just didn't sit well with me--I'm always interested in how numbers can be included or discluded for the sake of feathering an argument. Heh--the main reason the AIDS incidence went down in Uganda was due to death--not circumcision!
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