Circ Presentation Help

[LaffNowCryLater]

I'm taking a research class and I have an assignment to analyze an article or study and determine if it is valid or not (to describe the assignment simply). I suggested the Africa/AIDS study and my two group members were very interested. We have to do a paper and then a powerpoint and it will be presented in front of a group of mostly women in their early 20s who will be graduating college this Spring and for some, starting a family....what a perfect intactivist opportunity

Anyways, can anyone link me to or direct me to the hugely flawed studies about circing preventing AIDS in Africa. I remember hearing they gave sex ed to the circd group and not to the intact group and other stuff like that.

[KK Slider]

This isn't exactly what you asked for but it's a great resource. You may have already found it:
http://www.circumcisionandhiv.com/

It's a very intactivist site (just look at the background image!)

I forgot to mention, Adrian Colesberry wrote a few very, very good posts on the new HIV studies. Be sure to read the comments on the three "Triangle trade in foreskins" articles! Lots of links to other studies:
http://www.adriancolesberry.com/life/?cat=22

[glongley]

A very good rebuttal to the HIV studies.
http://www.icgi.org/Downloads/IAS/Green.pdf

For more ideas and arguments see the HIV pages at:
http://circumstitions.com/HIV.html

[Night_Nurse]

If you are allowed to pass out info during or after your presentation, you can get some printable pamphlets here:
http://www.nocirc.org/circ&aids.php

[Fellow Traveler]

You might want to read some of this book, chapter 7 talks about this issue specifically. http://sites.google.com/site/davidgisselquist/chapter7

[Greg B]

Two key points in this for you to include, if you have not already thought this through:

1) A circ'd man is not protected. Instead, he is just somewhat less likely (assuming you believe the studies properly controlled all variables) to be infected. This means he still has to do everything a man with a foreskin has to do in order to protect himself. Wear condoms, etc.

2) Analyzing the value of circ for HIV reduction in a population requires looking at more than the HIV issue. It is a trade off between the advantages vs the disadvantages. Circing dramatically reduces sexual function and feeling. For both the man and his partner. It violates the widely accepted right to bodily integrity. It risks infection and complications. The advantage is only that if his condom breaks, or he chooses not to practice safe sex he will be able to (statistically) have more encounters before becoming infected. And whatever else a pro circer wants to argue, of course.

Regards

[serendipity22]

You could include the evidence that circumcision increases male to female transmission.

Played down by the African studies people , of course.

[LaffNowCryLater]

I'm gonna spend this evening hunting down the/an article but in the meantime I found a new trial Who wants to sign up?

http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00993811?order=15