A recent trial to see if circumcision helped protect both men and women from HIV was halted after researchers learned the benefit is one-sided.
The study, published in Lancet medical journal, shows that while circumcision could help protect men from HIV, it doesn’t help women. However, researchers note that women may also benefit indirectly via reduced rates of HIV among men.

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and their colleagues in Uganda studied 922 uncircumcised, HIV-infected men and 163 wives or female sex partners of the men. Some of the men studied were immediately circumcised, while others waited for two years.
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