tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229878121183426722.post4526064071543075672..comments2023-10-08T12:27:04.050+03:00Comments on HIV in Kenya: HIV and Circumcision: the Emperor's New CondomSimonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522180315970081603noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229878121183426722.post-1143959514397991422012-03-21T17:14:21.840+03:002012-03-21T17:14:21.840+03:00Similar remarks apply to the Depo Provera and inje...Similar remarks apply to the Depo Provera and injectable contraceptive issue: people using these are less likely to use condoms, yet they are even more in need of them than those who use safer birth control methods, or who just use condoms!Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13522180315970081603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229878121183426722.post-26908461813563941592012-03-21T17:03:49.996+03:002012-03-21T17:03:49.996+03:00Recently released data from the Kenyan RCT (comple...Recently released data from the Kenyan RCT (completed in 2006) found that the men who were circumcised in the trial were significantly less likely to report using condoms all the time than the men who were not circumcised at the beginning of the trial. As much as Bailey's group wants to obfuscate this finding, it suggests that condom use is decreased after circumcision. It is easily demonstrated that a small change in condom use can undo the impact of large increases in circumcision prevalence.<br /><br />What I think is telling is that propaganda is more about everything other than what these studies think they demonstrated.Petit Pouletnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229878121183426722.post-33814652894669042992012-03-15T10:16:38.835+03:002012-03-15T10:16:38.835+03:00It's bizarre such excuses are used. Those who ...It's bizarre such excuses are used. Those who support circumcision sometimes talk about hygiene, as if uncircumcised men are unable to wash their penises. But then, those defending female genital mutilation also talk about hygiene, as if unmutilated women are unable to maintain the same levels of cleanliness. 'Protection' is reminiscent of the colonials and their 'protectorates'.Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13522180315970081603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229878121183426722.post-65903953799657711682012-03-14T17:25:48.459+03:002012-03-14T17:25:48.459+03:00Common rhetoric surrounding the drive to modify ma...Common rhetoric surrounding the drive to modify male genitals included terms like "gender equality" and "protecting" women and girls.<br /><br />As those anticipated and hoped-for benefits fail to materialize it becomes even clearer that priority number one-- is circumcision itself.Devon Oselnoreply@blogger.com