Daniel T. Halperin: Difference between revisions
m wikify HIV |
m wikify AIDS |
||
| Line 140: | Line 140: | ||
== Promoting Circumcision in Africa == | == Promoting Circumcision in Africa == | ||
Halperin and Bailey convinced eastern and south African "healers" to perform foreskin removal "as a way to alleviate chronic STD infection and prevent AIDS" in the 1990's. During the nineties alone, they convinced hundreds of South African men that circumcision would prevent [[HIV]].<ref name=Slack2000/> | Halperin and Bailey convinced eastern and south African "healers" to perform foreskin removal "as a way to alleviate chronic STD infection and prevent [[AIDS]]" in the 1990's. During the nineties alone, they convinced hundreds of South African men that circumcision would prevent [[HIV]].<ref name=Slack2000/> | ||
== HIV/AIDS == | == [[HIV]]/[[AIDS]] == | ||
Daniel Halperin has said he believes circumcision will go further than any other intervention available in stopping the [[HIV]], and that circumcision will prevent [[HIV]] among homosexual men.<ref name=Slack2000/> | Daniel Halperin has said he believes circumcision will go further than any other intervention available in stopping the [[HIV]], and that circumcision will prevent [[HIV]] among homosexual men.<ref name=Slack2000/> | ||
| Line 176: | Line 176: | ||
{{Citation | {{Citation | ||
|Title= | |Title= | ||
|Text=Don't you dare write that I think foreskins cause AIDS epidemics, any more than mosquitoes cause malaria. Mosquitoes are necessary for malaria, but not sufficient. You need all these cofactors to get an explosive AIDS epidemic, including foreskins. | |Text=Don't you dare write that I think foreskins cause [[AIDS]] epidemics, any more than mosquitoes cause malaria. Mosquitoes are necessary for malaria, but not sufficient. You need all these cofactors to get an explosive [[AIDS]] epidemic, including foreskins. | ||
|Author=Daniel Halperin | |Author=Daniel Halperin | ||
|Source=Express Online | |Source=Express Online | ||