Male circumcision for HIV prevention: what about protecting men's partners?
Male circumcision for HIV prevention: what about protecting men's partners?
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10.1016/s0968-8080(08)32418-5
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2008-11-01
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Berer, Marge
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作者：
Berer, Marge
男性包皮环切预防艾滋病一直是今年墨西哥城国际艾滋病大会的“热门”话题之一。我认为那太好了。凡是提出这个话题的地方，都表达了广泛不同的观点。这意味着我们可以公开面对所有问题，希望对这种做法产生良好的影响，因为男性包皮环切计划已经得到了慷慨的资助，并在许多渴望进行男性包皮环切的国家全速前进。我的专长是妇女的性健康和生殖健康及权利，包括与艾滋病毒有关的权利。我被要求在这次会议上提出性别观点。我来这里并不是为了谴责男性割礼。我明白它被推广和追捧的原因。但现在要知道它对减少艾滋病毒流行有何贡献还为时过早，我们需要留意联合国通讯社 Irin 2008 年 7 月 1 的一篇报道中的评论，该报道涉及那些打算从男性包皮环切术中受益的男性：
MALE circumcision for HIV prevention has been one of the “hot” topics at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City this year. I think that's great. Everywhere the subject has been raised, widely differing views have been expressed. It means we can confront all the issues openly in hopes of having a good effect on the practice, since male circumcision programmes are already being generously funded and moving full steam ahead to scale up male circumcision in as many countries as are keen to have it.My expertise is women's sexual and reproductive health and rights, including in relation to HIV. I was asked to put forward a gender perspective in this session. I'm not up here to condemn male circumcision. I understand the reasons why it is being promoted and sought after. But it is early days to know what it will contribute to reducing the HIV epidemic and we need to be mindful of comments such as these from a report by the UN news agency Irin in July 2008 1 regarding the very men who are intended to benefit from male circumcision: