“THERE are already queues of men demanding circumcision,” says Mark Stirling, regional director of UNAIDS for Eastern and Southern Africa. His team has been investigating how to help African ...

A few months before his son was born, Thomas Wolfe of Wheeling, W.Va., consulted the rabbi of his Reform congregation to discuss plans for the baby’s circumcision. “I had the perception that a ...

Sometimes, The Science tells us having men circumcised is a decent way to fight HIV transmission. Sometimes The Science tells us it has no noticeable effect. But now The Science is telling us that ...

Despite concerns that outlawing circumcision may harm efforts to limit the spread of AIDS, San Francisco’s intactivists have gotten a proposed ban on the ballot. As suggested by our Beryl Lieff ...

Circumcision is a physical event that always has cultural significance. Sometimes this culture is traditional and part of a ritual aimed at the wellbeing of society; sometimes it is medical and aimed ...

TORONTO – A practice dating back to biblical times could soon join the list of powerful weapons against AIDS. New studies suggest that male circumcision -- the surgical removal of the foreskin from ...