Circumcision helps stop cancer-causing virus, study finds

Researchers have documented yet another health benefit for circumcision, which can protect men against the AIDS virus, saying it can protect their wives and girlfriends from a virus that causes cervical cancer. Full Story »

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Vanessa Gamino
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by Vanessa Gamino - Feb. 22, 2011

This article is effective in connecting science with technology and society. The medical capacity to generate shots preventing HPV and other illnesses is certainly a possibility - but due to geography (or national origin) this technological innovation is not available to everyone. Society is affected by this disparity because Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 ople mate without specific regard to geograhy/class. As a result, all heterosexual couples are equally affected by sexual health even those who did/did not get the guardasil shot or those whose partner is or is not circumsized.

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