“I have not had a chance to talk to Tom Frieden and Alan Aviles about this,” Mr. McNeil Jr., a science writer for The Times, reported that the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has asked the city’s public hospitals system to perform the procedure at no charge for uninsured men.īut from the sound of things, the mayor may not have been fully briefed. Studies in Kenya, Uganda and South Africa that showed that circumcision could lower a man’s risk of contracting HIV from heterosexual sex. On March 28, the World Health Organization recommended that countries include circumcision as part of their AIDS prevention efforts, citing
The New York City health commissioner’s decision to encourage men at high risk of contracting HIV to get circumcised has drawn an array of reactions today, including a note of caution from Mayor Michael R.
