Results of the new study, “The Cost to Circumcise Africa,” published in the International Journal of Men’s Health, that compares the cost of male circumcision to the cost of lifetime distribution of free condoms in sub-Saharan Africa, found that condom distribution is 95 times more cost-effective in preventing the same number of infections. “Some might [...]

An editorial published in the current issue of HIV Future Therapy by Green et al., refutes the claims that male circumcision is like a “vaccine.” The article points out numerous fallacies in three clinical trials performed in Africa on a point-by-point basis including: insufficient data in a real-world setting, early termination of trials, conflicting results with [...]

(Ed. ICGI staffed a booth at IAS 2008. What follows is our staffer’s report on their experiences) You have never seen such a variety of people. There are diplomats, public health officials, clinicians of all types, grassroots activists (from anti-discrimination, sex-worker, religious, women’s, and gay organizations), researchers, and journalists. People in business suits, men and women [...]

NORM-UK, the organisation concerned with the male foreskin, and FORWARD, the organisation concerned with female genital mutilation (FGM), will unite at the Genital Integrity 2008 symposium on September 4th to launch a new campaign promoting the right of all men and women to say no to unnecessary genital surgery. In the face of a large scale [...]

The International Coalition for Genital Integrity notes that presentations submitted to the Mexico City AIDS 2008 conference challenging the value of circumcision for HIV prevention were rejected by conference committees. However, studies concluding the opposite, that male circumcision offers some protection against heterosexually transmitted HIV, were presented at the conference today. One study that was [...]

Results of the new study, “The Cost to Circumcise Africa,” comparing the cost of male circumcision to the cost of lifetime distribution of free condoms in sub-Saharan Africa, found that condom distribution is 95 times more cost-effective in preventing the same number of infections in Sub-Saharan Africa. “Male circumcision is too costly to justify in [...]

The human rights group, International Coalition for Genital Integrity, is continuing to raise concerns about the harms and costs of male circumcision at their booth in the AIDS 2008 conference in Mexico City this week, stating that circumcision programs will be a dangerous distraction in the HIV battle. “Mass circumcision campaigns will result in hundreds [...]