David W. posted an article on Male Circumcision and HIV - Nov 21, 2009, 8:07 pm
Within recent months, two professional physicians organizations have come out with statements acknowledging grave ethical concerns viz infant male circumcision, and concluding that the procedure is no...
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David W. posted an article on Male Circumcision and HIV - Nov 19, 2009, 8:49 pm
It's almost Christmas and I'm from Texas, so why not use a Texas phrase said to have been popularized by that good ol' boy himself, Don Meredith. Old Don once said, "If ifs and buts were c...
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David W. posted an article on Male Circumcision and HIV - Nov 9, 2009, 6:59 pm
Ok, let's just throw this up. I haven't been posting much, and the reasons are many. Never mind that, let's just get something up, even though this is a very superficial look at what we en...
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David W. posted an article on Male Circumcision and HIV - Nov 5, 2009, 4:36 pm
Gotta love the circumcision lobby's tenacity and hate the AIDS publishing industry's gullibility on this one ... That's right. Under a headline that concludes circumcision protects ...
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David W. posted an article on Male Circumcision and HIV - Oct 19, 2009, 11:28 am
Intact America Urges Pediatricians to Say No to Infant Circumcision - The Baby, Not The Parent, Is Your Patient ISSUES OPEN LETTER CALLING ON ATTENDEES AT AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS MEE...
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David W. posted an article on Male Circumcision and HIV - Oct 14, 2009, 3:19 pm
Intactivists will be protesting what they believe to be an unethical and sexist practice—infant circumcision—at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition (AAP NCE...
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David W. posted an article on Male Circumcision and HIV - Sep 30, 2009, 9:00 am
Is it possible to reliably predict whose point of view will win out in the infant circumcision debate? If we could identify interested individuals and extract the right metrics, could we then say wher...
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David W. posted an article on Male Circumcision and HIV - Sep 27, 2009, 11:00 am
We are live at the Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco. This is our first outreach event and our (obviously) first year at Folsom Street Fair. This is all very experimental at the moment. So wish us l...
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David W. posted an article on Male Circumcision and HIV - Sep 24, 2009, 9:36 am
Aidsmap has two stories this morning on a vaccine trial using two types of vaccine that has produced a one-third reduction in HIV infection in a truly massive sample (over 16,000 participants). The st...
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David W. posted an article on Male Circumcision and HIV - Sep 18, 2009, 7:14 pm

David W. posted an article on Male Circumcision and HIV - Sep 10, 2009, 3:21 pm
A panel of experts organized by UNAIDS, WHO and the South African Centre for Epidemiological Analysis have calculated the numbers needed to treat (NNT) for any roll out of mass circumcision and publis...
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David W. posted an article on Male Circumcision and HIV - Sep 10, 2009, 10:25 am
Gal Beckerman of Forward, The Jewish Daily has written a piece on Operation Abraham and Inon Schenker's presence at the 2009 National HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta. He asks some relevant qu...
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David W. posted an article on Male Circumcision and HIV - Sep 4, 2009, 6:07 pm
At the International AIDS Society Conference in July, a session was devoted to preparing for success in the PrEP and microbicide trials. One talking head had this to say on getting people to buy into ...
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David W. posted an article on Male Circumcision and HIV - Sep 1, 2009, 9:38 pm
Evidence of the great confusion the CDC is causing around the world is beginning to trickle in. The Australian morning program Sunrise aired a debate between one Dr. George Williams and the rabid (non...
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David W. posted an article on Male Circumcision and HIV - Aug 31, 2009, 9:00 am
Above, David Llewellyn and Georganne Chapin speak with attendees at the 2009 National HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta,Georgia, held August 23-26, 2009. From David Llewellyn, Esq.: T...
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David W. posted an article on Male Circumcision and HIV - Aug 30, 2009, 9:00 am
  Even Dr. Gray, who led the trials, is not sure the United States should promote circumcision. “If you were to ask me, should the U.S. be promoting circumcision, my answer would be, ‘...
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David W. posted an article on Male Circumcision and HIV - Aug 29, 2009, 11:00 am

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David W. posted an article on Male Circumcision and HIV - Aug 28, 2009, 7:11 pm
When considering routine infant circumcision, ethical concerns have focused on recognition of the functional role of the foreskin, the non-therapeutic nature of the operation, and the psychological di...
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David W. posted an article on Male Circumcision and HIV - Aug 27, 2009, 10:55 pm
One could almost hear the American public rushing to their computers to google "circumcision and HIV" at the start of the National HIV Prevention Conference held in Atlanta over the last few days. Ok,...
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David W. posted an article on Male Circumcision and HIV - Aug 26, 2009, 3:05 pm
You know we're in trouble when the title of a session says elective and the body of the abstract talks about parents of newborn infants as the target population. Of course, one needn't go beyo...
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David W. posted an article on Male Circumcision and HIV - Aug 25, 2009, 4:30 pm
In a sane world, this would be the end of it. The most affected group of HIV/AIDS sufferers in the U.S. do not benefit from the amputation of their foreskin. But the United States in a dizzying array ...
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David W. posted an article on Male Circumcision and HIV - Aug 25, 2009, 3:25 pm
MEDIA INFORMATION: Ya-Ting Liu at (O) 917-438-4627 or (C ) 908-227-0686. yliu@mrss.com, M+R Strategic Services, Inc. New York, NY Statement from Georganne Chapin, Executive Director, Intact Ame...
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