Government-mandated forced #circumcision of men - not infants, not boys, ADULT MEN - is debated in a national legislature.
That's not speculative hyperbole about a fictional or futuristic #dystopia.
That's today's news from #Tanzania. #i2 @IntactAmericahttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47169732 …
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Replying to @cooney21 @intactamerica
In Tanzania, 6.5% of cut men have HIV, compared to 5.6% of intact men, according to https://dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/CR22/CR22.pdf … So where's the protection?
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#i2 It's telling these results came from a U.S. gov't agency publication, prepared by (among others) 2 individuals from Johns Hopkins University, which has a notorious pro-circumcision bias. Just look at the way they spun -er, I mean "characterized" their#circumcision findings:1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes -
"There appears...no clear pattern of association between male circumcision and HIV prevalence. In 8 of 18 countries with data, as expected, HIV prevalence is lower among circumcised men, while in the remaining 10 countries HIV prevalence is higher among circumcised men." (p. 135)
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Why did they say "as expected"? Because they're biased Americans, which is also why they mentioned the 8 countries with the data they liked first, and the data they didn't like from "the remaining 10 countries" second.
#WagtheDog And if you're wondering why they didn't aggregate1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
...the data from the 18 countries, it's probably because it shows HIV prevalence among genitally intact men in all 18 countries to be 2.66% and HIV prevalence among circumcised men in all 18 countries to be 2.93%. Or, as the authors of the African RCTs might put it...
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...The data - taken from 116,161 men - show that #circumcision INCREASES a man's risk of contracting HIV by roughly 10% (from 2.66% to 2.93%). #i2 @PEPFAR #VMMC @HillaryClinton @ClintonFdn @BillGates @JohnsHopkinsSPH @CDCgov @WHO @AmerAcadPeds #tweetiatrician #meded #medtwitter
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