The AIDS2031 initiative in association with the International Center for Research on Women and the UNAIDS Global Coalition on Women and AIDS is calling for abstracts for a meeting to be convened in early 2009 called "Sex, Rights, and the Law in...

This press release comes to us from Wellness Associates as the XVII International AIDS Conference gets under way in Mexico City. John Travis examines the cost effectiveness of condoms vs circumcision in a paper to be published this Fall.

I guess it's over. Health care reform in the United States has failed. We are closer than ever to a bill being passed that will require you to purchase health insurance or face fines. The insurance companies will not be constrained in what they can...

What is one to do when a fourth study (Templeton) shows gay men gain nothing from male circumcision not just in HIV risk reduction, but also in many other sexually transmitted infections? In this case, several boneheaded scientists took the evidence of...

The Telegraph reports that a lecturer in ethics at Glasgow University has published a paper in the journal Clinical Ethics, arguing that it is unethical to circumcise boys for no medical reason. Dr. David Shaw writes that a doctor who performs...

A number of readers have emailed me with a tip that Marie Stopes International (MSI), a UK-based family planning NGO, has put up a website promoting circumcision in Africa (complete with a circumcisons completed counter dubbed the "MCometer"). From the...

If there is a single factor that should stop the circumcision campaigns in Africa immediately, it is this. One in five HIV infections in Africa is caused by medical staff, according to the authors of a series of papers in a publication backed by ...