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Study Suggests Why Circumcised Men Less Likely To Become Infected With HIV
A PLoS One study published Tuesday sheds a new light on why men who have been circumcised are less likely to become infected with HIV, ANI/Times of India reports (1/6). Pooling data from "three randomized-control trials in sub-Saharan Africa, where the circumcision rate is relatively low and the HIV infection rate is relatively high," the researchers from the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Johns Hopkins University found "for the first time that circumcision significantly changes the bacterial community of the penis," according to a TGen press release.
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