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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa?

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From: sea_urchin7/26/2005 9:00:22 PM
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Something I've know for a long time which is never mentioned, especially by African politicians, and now it's been proved scientifically.

news.yahoo.com

>>Male circumcision significantly reduces the chances of female-to-male transmission of the AIDS virus, according to a new study French researchers announced Tuesday.

The study, conducted in South Africa, found that circumcision reduced the risk of men contracting AIDS during heterosexual intercourse by about 65 percent.

"There had always been a suspicion that male circumcision prevented AIDS ... but this is the first randomized study using control trials," said Dr. Bertrand Auvert, who coordinated the study for France's National AIDS Research Agency.<<

That is why the Zulus, all of whom are uncircumcised, have the highest incidence of HIV/AIDS in SA and are thus, as a nation, in the process of self-extermination.
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