LONDON - A new study found that uncircumcised men were nearly seven times more likely to get the AIDS (news - web sites) virus, giving further support to findings that circumcision .
The study by Robert C. Bollinger and colleagues from Johns Hopkins University Medical School and the National AIDS Research Institute in Pune, India, was published Friday as a "research letter" in The Lancet medical journal.
"It is now about the ninth study which followed men who are HIV (news - web sites)-negative over a period of months or years. It is the ninth study in a row which has found that the effect (of circumcision) is significant," said Robert C. Bailey, professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who was not connected with Bollinger's study.
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