Female circumcision 'should be allowed by law' - member of Ireland's Islamic Cultural Centre #FGMhttps://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/female-circumcision-should-be-allowed-by-law-member-of-irelands-islamic-cultural-centre-36585441.html …
Recent studies have shown that there is no connection between circumcision and HIV, except for two studies in Africa which are relied on while others are ignored, like this one: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3781/0070486930476b5d2e0e7c53ae7799d1f8d3.pdf …
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If you actually look at the African studies, they made no attempt to determine the actual cause of infection (These areas are estimated to have a 20% non sexual infection rate) nor determine the seroconversion rates, which are what are needed to assess actual infection risk. >>
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2> What they did do is take a 20 month period, during which the intervention (cut) cohort could not have sex for about two months due to healing (10% less time to be infected) and assume that all infections during that time were from sexual transmission. The difference was 1.3%>>
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3> the 60% you hear is a difference in relative not absolute risk, And the studies also insisted that men still wear condoms, which would remove any benefit, if it truly existed, to HIV prevention. There are also two studies that found an inverse correlation between HIV and FGM.
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