HIV and ... circumcision?
Okay, this is a tenuous connection (statistically non-significant, which means that there IS a correlation, but it's not much beyond the effects of chance), but it's a connection.
Circumcised males aren't infected with HIV as easily.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1848024,00.html
Male circumcision has been shown to protect men from acquiring H.I.V. infection during sex with women - it has reduced female-to-male transmission rates by 48% to 60% in sub-Saharan Africa - but that protective effect appears less reliable among men who have sex with men, according to a new meta-analysis published Oct. 7 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (J.A.M.A.).
Interesting.
Circumcised males aren't infected with HIV as easily.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1848024,00.html
Male circumcision has been shown to protect men from acquiring H.I.V. infection during sex with women - it has reduced female-to-male transmission rates by 48% to 60% in sub-Saharan Africa - but that protective effect appears less reliable among men who have sex with men, according to a new meta-analysis published Oct. 7 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (J.A.M.A.).
Interesting.