{"id":3000,"date":"2006-12-14T11:59:55","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T15:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/12\/14\/new-hiv-treatments-smart\/"},"modified":"2006-12-14T11:59:55","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T15:59:55","slug":"new-hiv-treatments-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/12\/14\/new-hiv-treatments-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"New HIV Treatments Smart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a9031'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/castration.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"318\" align=\"left\">In  two studies, researchers in Kenya and Uganda enrolled thousands of uncircumcised men to determine if the procedure could reduce HIV transmission among heterosexuals, with some men having their foreskin removed and others remaining intact. <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The trial in Kenya, involving nearly 2,800 participants, found that the circumcised men were 53 percent less likely to contract HIV. The Ugandan study, with nearly 5,000 men, showed a 48 percent reduction.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\">from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/world\/africa\/articles\/2006\/12\/14\/circumcision_found_to_reduce_hiv_infection\/\">Boston Globe <\/a>       <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>Why stop with the foreskin? Research we are working on will show that castration almost completely eliminates genital transmission of HIV&#8230;.. <\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In two studies, researchers in Kenya and Uganda enrolled thousands of uncircumcised men to determine if the procedure could reduce HIV transmission among heterosexuals, with some men having their foreskin removed and others remaining intact. The trial in Kenya, involving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/12\/14\/new-hiv-treatments-smart\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weird-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}