{"id":299,"date":"2007-03-28T19:14:21","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T18:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2007\/03\/28\/who_advocates_male_circumcision"},"modified":"2007-03-28T19:14:21","modified_gmt":"2007-03-28T18:14:21","slug":"who_advocates_male_circumcision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2007\/03\/28\/who_advocates_male_circumcision","title":{"rendered":"WHO advocates male circumcision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title = \"BBC NEWS | Health | WHO agrees HIV circumcision plan\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/6502855.stm\">BBC NEWS | Health | WHO agrees HIV circumcision plan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organisation today recommended that the circumcision of boys be used as a means of preventing AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, although obviously not in the absence of barrier contraception or &#8220;delaying sexual debut and reducing the number of sexual partners&#8221;.  The effect &#8211; a reduction of new infections by half or more &#8211; appears to have been on female-to-male transmission of the HIV virus; the effect on women is still unclear.  No doubt the anti-circumcision crowd will have something to say, but the report is said to demonstrate that it&#8217;s not just down to differences in sexual behaviour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC NEWS | Health | WHO agrees HIV circumcision plan The World Health Organisation today recommended that the circumcision of boys be used as a means of preventing AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, although obviously&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-4P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}