Jaajef wa G-L,

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Yeenduleen ak jaama

Tony
>
>
>> Assalamualaikum,
>>
>> May I inform you about a press-release which reads:
>>
>> Circumcision protects men from HIV
>>
>> Circumcision may somehow protect men from sexual transmission of
the
>> AIDS virus, researchers said on Sunday, but they admitted they do
>> not have a clue why.
>
> A study in Uganda aimed at examining how couples infect one another
> found two things which seemed to protect people - being older and
> being circumcised.
>
> "Acquisition of HIV did not occur in any of the circumcised men" Dr.
> Thomas Quinn of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, who led the
> study, told the 7th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic
> Infections, a meeting of AIDS researchers.
>
> "Age, independent of viral load, appeared to have a protective effect"
> Quinn added.
>
> The highest transmission rate was in people 15 to 29 years old.
> Quinn's team, working with 15.000 people in the Rakai district of
> Uganda, also found that people did not pass on the virus to their
> partners if they had a naturally low level of HIV in the blood - 1,500
> copies according to standard measures. He found that the more virus
> people had in their blood, the more likely they were to pass it on.
> There were no differences in women infecting men or men infecting
> women. Quinn said his team was one of the first to actually go out and
> test the idea where HIV is raging the worst. More than 23 million
> people in sub-Saharan Africa are infected with HIV. The findings might
> suggest ways of stemming the epidemic. Telling people to abstain from
> sex or use condoms has not worked, and the drugs that keep the virus
> at bay in some patients in rich countries are not available in the
> poor countries hardest hit by the epidemic.
> But the study suggests that using drugs to keep the virus at lower
> levels, or a vaccine that might do the same without quite curing a
> patient, might help.
>
> Quinn said he was at a loss to explain why circumcision might affect a
> man's risk of being infected by a woman. He noted that in his team's
> study, only Muslims were circumcised. He said there might be some
> cultural differences in the timing or frequency of sex, or perhaps
> being circumcised might go hand in hand with other practices that
> would somehow protect a man from infection."
>
> End of article.
>
> Allah knows best. In the Qur'an is Healing. Those who follow the
> Qur'an and the Sunnah of the Prophet Pbuh have nothing to fear nor
> shall they grieve.
> Salaams, Rehana
>

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