Morning Briefing

Male circumcision is "a practice that -- despite the evidence -- has yet to be adopted as much or as fast as experts had hoped," the Financial Times reports. "International organizations have publicly endorsed the importance of circumcision, and a number of guidelines have been established, but the response so far has been haphazard and funding remains modest," the newspaper writes, adding, "One reason has been that much government donor and philanthropic support for HIV prevention work was focused instead on more 'high-tech' alternatives such as vaccines and microbicides" (Jack, 11/30).