You really think only 4mm is cut off in a circumcision? I would be so lucky if that's all that was taken.
So if we take that 60% RRR at face value, which I think we all here agree is pretty much bunk, and your partner is infected, and that partner is not taking their antiretrovirals, you are using condoms and on prep (as I am) the seroconversion rate with circumcision is >>
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2> 13/1,000,000 for uncircumcised and 5/1,000,000 for circumcised, remember that's accepting the claim that circumcision is 60% effective at preventing HIV. If your partner knows they have HIV and are taking their medication, that number goes to 5/10 mil and 2/10 mil. And all >>
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3> of this math assumes your partner is infected, and accepts the 60% as true, which I do not, I expect it to be much closer to 0 in a proper trial that looks at seroconversion rates, that does not have a limiting factor (healing) on one side of the equation etc
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