Is the Danger of Herpes Reduced by Circumcision?

Male circumcision reduces herpes, findings and studies

According to some new medical studies, the findings show that circumcised men do have a smaller danger of being infected by genital herpes or papillomavirus infections. Men who have had circumcision under medical supervision were proved to have benefits in the fight against the herpes virus.

A test group in Uganda with 3,393 heterosexual man was clinically preformed with ages between 15 and 49. The results did show that the amount of genital herpes infections were decreased by 28 percent in those men who had been circumcised. However, there was no change in the occurrences of syphilis.

Because of these findings, there really needs to be a reevaluation of the value of the male circumcision not only for protecting against HIV but for protection against other infectious diseases that can be spread by sexual encounters.

Scientists at Rakai Health Sciences Program of Uganda performed this study in conjunction with the Johns Hopkins, Makerere University of Uganda and with the researchers of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID).
Together the gathered data from this scientific investigation did uphold the findings of the medical studies done showing that there is now overwhelming evidence that male circumcision has valuable benefits. These benefits to men's health due to male circumcision does include a reduction in being infected by HPV and genital ulcer disease, HIV infection, and. genital herpes virus.

A clinical test was performed by NIAID that verified that the circumcision of mature males did decrease the danger of getting infected by HIV in heterosexuals by over 50 percent.
With the results of these tests there is a general urging amongst the medical community to reconsider the health benefits of male circumcision. It has also been said that the medical procedure where the foreskin of the penis is removed should be widely shown as beneficial and made more readily available.

Unfortunately, Medicaid will not cover the costs of a routine newborn circumcision in sixteen different states, even though the potential health benefits have been proven. In African Americans and Hispanic individuals, the probability of being infected by herpes virus and HIV is excessively high compared to their numbers and these are also the lowest number of individuals who do have male circumcision.

Nation wide the statistics show that the rate of male circumcisions in newborns that have been delivered in hospitals is much lower that it was in the early 60's. The data that shows the benefits for the health of men who have been circumcised makes it necessary for the medical community to re-evaluate the practice of male circumcision as a possible preventative measure against infectious diseases like genital herpes.