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=== [[AIDS]] prevention ===

Studies refute circumcision as [[AIDS]] prevention. Male circumcision is irrelevant to the spread of [[AIDS]] if one counts out the number of infected prostitutes in the region. There is less [[AIDS]] in Muslim areas. However, this is not caused by the higher number of circumcised men, but by the lower number of prostitutes per inhabitant. When looking at sexual intercourse individually, circumcision can reduce the transmission rate by 50-60%, but the problem is that individuals in areas with a high [[AIDS]] rate have multiple sexual contacts with infected people. Circumcision would only delay the inevitable and be ineffective as [[AIDS]] prevention.<ref name="AIDS-Studie">{{REFnews

Studies refute circumcision as [[AIDS]] prevention. Male circumcision is irrelevant to the spread of [[AIDS]] if one counts out the number of infected prostitutes in the region. There is less [[AIDS]] in Muslim areas. However, this is not caused by the higher number of [[circumcised]] men, but by the lower number of prostitutes per inhabitant. When looking at sexual intercourse individually, circumcision can reduce the transmission rate by 50-60%, but the problem is that individuals in areas with a high [[AIDS]] rate have multiple sexual contacts with infected people. Circumcision would only delay the inevitable and be ineffective as [[AIDS]] prevention.<ref name="AIDS-Studie">{{REFnews

|url=http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/74521.php

|title=Male Circumcision Overstated As Prevention Tool Against AIDS

}}</ref>

Among 500 men, 23.4% of the circumcised had already been affected by a sexually transmitted disease by the age of 32, and 23.5% of the ~~uncircumcised~~.<ref name="SÜK-Studie">{{REFweb

Among 500 men, 23.4% of the [[circumcised]] had already been affected by a sexually transmitted disease by the age of 32, and 23.5% of the [[intact]].<ref name="SÜK-Studie">{{REFweb

|url=http://www.icgi.org/2008/03/circumcision-does-not-shield-men-from-std/

|title=Circumcision does not shield men from STD

}}</ref>

It has the opposite effect when circumcised men feel safe from [[AIDS]] and do without condoms.<ref>{{REFweb

It has the opposite effect when [[circumcised]] men feel safe from [[AIDS]] and do without condoms.<ref>{{REFweb

|url=http://www.manndat.de/maennergesundheit/gastbeitrag-beschneidung-von-maennern-als-aids-vorsorge.html

|title=MANNdat: Beschneidung von Männern als Aids-Vorsorge?

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 === [[AIDS]] prevention ===
-Studies refute circumcision as [[AIDS]] prevention. Male circumcision is irrelevant to the spread of [[AIDS]] if one counts out the number of infected prostitutes in the region. There is less [[AIDS]] in Muslim areas. However, this is not caused by the higher number of circumcised men, but by the lower number of prostitutes per inhabitant. When looking at sexual intercourse individually, circumcision can reduce the transmission rate by 50-60%, but the problem is that individuals in areas with a high [[AIDS]] rate have multiple sexual contacts with infected people. Circumcision would only delay the inevitable and be ineffective as [[AIDS]] prevention.<ref name="AIDS-Studie">{{REFnews
+Studies refute circumcision as [[AIDS]] prevention. Male circumcision is irrelevant to the spread of [[AIDS]] if one counts out the number of infected prostitutes in the region. There is less [[AIDS]] in Muslim areas. However, this is not caused by the higher number of [[circumcised]] men, but by the lower number of prostitutes per inhabitant. When looking at sexual intercourse individually, circumcision can reduce the transmission rate by 50-60%, but the problem is that individuals in areas with a high [[AIDS]] rate have multiple sexual contacts with infected people. Circumcision would only delay the inevitable and be ineffective as [[AIDS]] prevention.<ref name="AIDS-Studie">{{REFnews
   |url=http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/74521.php
   |title=Male Circumcision Overstated As Prevention Tool Against AIDS
 }}</ref>
-Among 500 men, 23.4% of the circumcised had already been affected by a sexually transmitted disease by the age of 32, and 23.5% of the uncircumcised.<ref name="SÜK-Studie">{{REFweb
+Among 500 men, 23.4% of the [[circumcised]] had already been affected by a sexually transmitted disease by the age of 32, and 23.5% of the [[intact]].<ref name="SÜK-Studie">{{REFweb
   |url=http://www.icgi.org/2008/03/circumcision-does-not-shield-men-from-std/
   |title=Circumcision does not shield men from STD
 }}</ref>
-It has the opposite effect when circumcised men feel safe from [[AIDS]] and do without condoms.<ref>{{REFweb
+It has the opposite effect when [[circumcised]] men feel safe from [[AIDS]] and do without condoms.<ref>{{REFweb
   |url=http://www.manndat.de/maennergesundheit/gastbeitrag-beschneidung-von-maennern-als-aids-vorsorge.html
   |title=MANNdat: Beschneidung von Männern als Aids-Vorsorge?