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Please do point me to the randomized controlled trial showing that FGM prevents HIV transmission.
You write: “The circumcision reducing incidences by 60% is total bullshit as those studies only looked at poor areas that received both circumcision and holistic sexual health aid such as std testing and condoms and genital hygiene awareness programs and kits and not the parts of africa that received only circumcision programs.”
It is true that participants in these RCT received holistic care. But both the circumcised participants and uncircumcised control groups received that holistic care, and the circumcised participants saw a 50-60% reduction. So this is not a confounding variable.
“This is further evidence by even theWHO themselves stating that circumcision is incapable of actually stopping std transmission on its own and needs to be sired with other programs to have any actual effect but then the question begs that how do we know that circumcision isn’t hijacking the efforts and EFFECTS of the paired health initiative in the first place.”
We know this because there were control groups where circumcision was the only variable.
“it doesn’t even help marginally tho as although we are more likely to tear our foreskin because we still have a foreskin, not only is that like saying you’re more likely to crack your teeth if you still have teeth,”
First, microtears are one factor among many that may explain why circumcision reduces HIV. Even without tearing the mucosal tissue in foreskin is a receptor for HIV. Second, much as I oppose RIC, the analogy to teeth is misleading, because teeth are an essential structure whereas foreskin is not – you can find men circumcised in adulthood who are glad they underwent the procedure. There is nothing unethical in a public health program that offers men voluntary circumcision as a part of holistic strategy to reduce HIV transmission.
