Shalom All:

I share this item because the Arabs and the Children of Israel do
circumcision.  Certainly I understand the link to Abraham ... but this
procedure is interesting in that it seems to protect and preserve a people
against their very own evil actions.  They can be participating in wickedness
but have less of a chance of getting "caught".  If they didn't practice
circumcision, their infections would also be up.

Study says circumcision reduces AIDS risk
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0705wsj-aids-risk05-ON.html#
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It was conducted with more than 3,000 HIV-negative men ages 18 to 24 in a
South African township called Orange Farm. Half of the men were randomly
assigned to be circumcised and the other half to remain uncircumcised as
controls. The study, headed by Dr. Auvert, a researcher at the French
National Institute of Health and Medical Research and at the University of
Versailles Saint-Quentin, originally planned to follow the men for 21 months.
But after all the men had been followed for a year - and about half of them
for the full 21 months - the data showed the circumcised group fared far
better. For every 10 uncircumcised men in the study who contracted HIV, only
about three circumcised men did so, according to two people familiar with the
research and a draft of the study reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Stopping trials is common when an intervention is clearly shown to be
effective. Indeed, the result of the South African trial is likely to spark
discussion of whether to halt or modify two other major studies of
circumcision and HIV under way in Kenya and Uganda, funded by the National
Institutes of Health.
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Dianne
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