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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According to a press release issued by Microbicide Trials Network (MTN), an HIV/AIDS clinical trials network established in 2006 by the Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers will begin addressing questions of HIV microbicide in the first clinical trial of a candidate vaginal microbicide in pregnant women. A microbicide is like a spermicide but for microbes – it kills the microbes so they can’t do harm.
You can read the press release and learn what it’s all about: Trial is first to see if HIV prevention …read more