Todays WTF??? U.S. Will Spend $24.5M to Circumcise Men in Swaziland

(CNSNews.com) – The United States Agency for International Development is planning to spend $24.5 million to circumcise an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 male infants and males aged 10 to 49 in the kingdom of Swaziland by 2018.

The Kingdom of Swaziland has the highest rates of HIV in the world, accounting for 31 percent HIV prevalence among adults, the grant said.

“While the data suggest that the rate of new infections is stabilizing, HIV and AIDS remain the most important health burden and impediment to socio-economic development for Swaziland,” the grant said. “As a result, there is an urgent need to scale up the HIV prevention response in Swaziland.”

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Permalink Reply by Deep Space on May 23, 2014 at 1:27pm

Just another battlefront in the war against premature-ejaculation.

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Study: Circumcision Removes Most Sensitive Parts
Ker Than | June 15, 2007

How much does circumcision alter what a man ultimately feels? Scientific studies aiming to answer this question have been inconclusive.

Now researchers prodding dozens of male penises with a fine-tipped tool have found that the five areas most receptive to fine-touch are routinely removed by the surgery.

http://www.livescience.com/1624-study-circumcision-removes-sensitiv...

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Permalink Reply by Less Prone on May 24, 2014 at 10:18pm

"Infant male circumcision is the most common medical procedure in the United States, with an estimated 60 percent of male newborns undergoing the surgery."

60%?

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Permalink Reply by Exposure on May 29, 2014 at 2:33am

Yeah I heard there was an shortage of rubber washers out there!! Sick joke! It's nothing more than "branding" like that of branding cattle and sheep. And what is the connection between HIV and being circumcised? None! Just another excuse to rob the treasury - hence you, me and everyone - for no doubt your government is not the only one whose got crooked politicians who use these types "HIV" scaremongering tactics in order to cream money off and place it into their buddies companies and dodgy schemes!

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Permalink Reply by Steven Berry on May 30, 2014 at 1:49am

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/prevention/research/malecircumcision/

Summary

Male circumcision reduces the risk that a man will acquire HIV from an infected female partner, and also lowers the risk of other STDs , penile cancer, and infant urinary tract infection.
For female partners, male circumcision reduces the risk of cervical cancer, genital ulceration, bacterial vaginosis, trichomoniasis, and HPV. Although male circumcision has risks including pain, bleeding, and infection, more serious complications are rare.

Personally, I'd pay $24.5 million to have mine back.

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Permalink Reply by Ron Anderson on May 30, 2014 at 7:03am

How 11 New York City Babies Contracted Herpes Through Circumcision

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish circumcision ritual is found to cause neonatal herpes infections in newborns in New York City, prompting health officials to encourage parents to consider the health risks of the practice.

The report is sure to reignite a long-simmering debate over public health and religious liberties: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on Thursday that 11 baby boys in New York City were infected with herpes between Nov. 2000 and Dec. 2011 following an ultra-Orthodox Jewish circumcision ritual called metzitzah b’peh — or oral suction — in which the mohel puts his mouth directly on the newborn’s circumcised penis and sucks away the blood.

Ten of the babies were hospitalized, at least two developed brain damage and two died, according to the New York City health department.

Update: forward.com

Leading medical groups say there is a risk in particular that the mohel can transmit herpes to an infant during MBP that, while harmless to adults, can be potentially fatal to newborns. New York City’s health department says 14 infants have been infected in the city since 2000. Two of those babies died, and at least two others suffered brain damage.

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Permalink Reply by Less Prone on June 5, 2014 at 8:14pm

Sucking the blood out of the mutilated penis. SICK!

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Permalink Reply by Ragnarok on June 5, 2014 at 8:24pm

From Wiki

Under Jewish law, a mohel must draw blood from the circumcision wound. Most mohels do it by hand with a suction device, but some Orthodox groups use their mouth to draw blood after cutting the foreskin.^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recently (2012) issued a warning about the health implications of this practice, citing 11 cases of neonatal HSV and two recorded fatalities.^[12] A review (2013) of cases of neonatal HSV infections in Israel identified ritual circumcision as the source of HSV-1 transmission in 31.8% of cases.^[13]

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Permalink Reply by Exposure on June 5, 2014 at 8:48pm

Yep, can you image what this ritual looks like, tiny screaming baby - foreskin cut and removed and then a old Mohel would orally suck the babies penis - itself a sexual act and abuse - and drink the blood; for it's to benefit the Mohel "fountain of youth" - and brand the child as part of their herd in the same indoctrinated process.