Medical Benefits
to the individual male being circumcised
Medical evidence, mainly amassed since the mid-1990s, overwhelmingly indicates that circumcision provides significant health benefits not only to individual males of all ages but also to the partners of those who are sexually active. The public health implications alone are such that routine circumcision of infants, boys and men should be seriously considered. With the worldwide male circumcision rate somewhere between 30% and 40%, now is the time to work to significantly increase this number for the health benefit of the entire planet.
Benefits of circumcision to the individual male
The risk of acquiring/suffering from these conditions will be reduced by a statistically significant amount:
- Urinary Tract Infections ("UTIs"), especially in infants but also through to adulthood
- Phimosis
- Paraphimosis
- HIV - Human Immunodeficiency Virus - the virus that causes AIDS
- HPV - Human Papilloma Virus.This is the virus that causes a significant proportion of cervical cancers in women, but it can also affect the male
- HSV 2 - Herpes Simplex Virus number 2
- GUD - Genital Ulcer Disease - and other sexually transmitted infections ("STIs")
- Balanoposthitis
- BXO - the auto-immune condition Balanitis Xerotica Obliterans
- Penile cancer and (confirmed by the American Cancer Society in 2012) prostate cancer
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Phimosis and Paraphimosis are reliably prevented by circumcision. Penile cancer is reliably prevented only by circumcision in infancy; done later in life the degree of protection achieved is less. In respect of other conditions, no claim can be made that male circumcision provides perfect protection. The issues here are Risk Reduction for the individual and Epidemic Control in the population at large. |
Read more about...
- The evidence supporting claims that male circumcision has a role to play in the control of these diseases.
- The fundamentals of Epidemic Control and the difference between individual healthcare and "Public Health".
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