A review committee convened by the National Institutes of Health has concluded that a controversial AIDS experiment in East Africa should continue despite criticism that it is unethically exposing African participants to the disease, the San Francisco Chronicle reported today. The experiment seeks to determine if male circumcision can reduce the risk of infection with HIV (The Chronicle, May 27, 2005). A similar experiment in South Africa was halted last year, after it was demonstrated that circumcised men bore a much lower risk of HIV infection and it was deemed unethical to withhold those findings from uncircumcised men.
June 29, 2006
NIH Panel Refuses to Halt Study of AIDS and Circumcision in Africa
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