1. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Mar 10, 2007, 11:55 am PST

Huge news in the fight against the spread of broken arms: Amputate your arm.

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2. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Mar 10, 2007, 3:43 pm PST

Although this report in SA said it reduces the risk , how come SA is one of the countries in the world with the highest HIV/AIDS statistics ? The part of the population that is most affected goes through a ritual according to their culture where men goes to a "bush camp" to learn from their elders and at the end of the camp get circumcised by the elders and so according to beleive becomes a real man.(more or less at the age 16-18) The real problem lies in people's sexual believes and behaviour and customs . To get a grip on this devastating reality people should be educated , Government should come to the party (in SA)and meds should be available to everybody. GET REAL - one survey like this will not really make a change in a 3rd world country like this !!! Children get sexually active as young as 7 years of age in certain parts of this country and live in rural areas with no or little infrastructure or exposure to proper education about sexual behaviour and the consequinces that goes with having unprotected sex. Sad but true.I know people that knows they have HIV/AIDS and still goes on and have unprotected sex with several partners. The world should stop their financial contributions and put pressure on the Government and rather help to educate people on a massive scale. I read another survey that predicted that by the year 2014 a whole generation in SA will be gone because of AIDS.To give money to orginisations in the believe that people with AIDS benifit from it but there's no control over how the money is spend is blind.Surveys like this doesn't change the reality nor does it give a true reflection of the perportions of this problem. There are a lot of non governmental orginisations and private people that do their best to help victims and their families but the need is so enormous that it almost doesn't make a difference.Epidemic ? No pandemic.2 million people in Africa in 10 years ? In SA alone about 10 million people are HIV/ AIDS infected at this very moment.If something drastic doesn't happen soon , I belief that the survey about 2014 will become our reality.

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3. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Tue, Mar 27, 2007, 5:32 am PDT

All praises and thanks be to God Almighty Allah, Muslims are circumcised. What many non-Muslims that goes against Islam especially with matters concerning circumcision, now they find the benefit of it. this God's guidance. will they not then reflect on Islam?

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4. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Thu, Jun 07, 2007, 11:35 am PDT

confusing.

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5. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Jun 23, 2007, 8:46 am PDT

#3, Alzenri. I hope no one perceives me as disrespecting (their) God but I find it impossible to believe that God creates and gives life to an imperfect child. If you believe that a child could be born imperfect I just don't see how you wouldn't support abortion. My God (and I'm not sure I consider myself Christian) teaches that to prevent disease one has to respect the other person and them self and that is done by being very selective with whom one has sex with. Only the promiscuous (and therefore unfaithful to both them self and their religion) should use other precautions. The fact that Islam teaches that a boy be circumcised (if the reason IS to prevent disease) tells me that part of Islam was created for a people who historically have practiced unhealthy sex and so their religion had to come up with a way to try and keep the population healthy.

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6. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Fri, Aug 31, 2007, 7:11 pm PDT

Mr. Margolis... Sir, you may to review your statements that circumcision helps in the prevention of aids/hiv... medical researchers in Holland earlier this year made a ground-breaking discovery that the mucose membrane of the inner prepuce (foreskin) actually destroys the virus on contact thus rebutting all this rhetorical 'hoohaa' that mutilation does help... could you please amend your information on the internet and draw this fact to your fellow academics. Thanks for your time and attention . Mr. P. Prescot

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7. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, Dec 26, 2007, 7:08 pm PST

This article should be removed... in early 2007, medical researchers in the Netherlands found that the Langerin Cells of the Inner Foreskin destroy the HIV virus. Circumcision makes one "vunerable" to hiv infection... When is the truth going to be recognized???? ---------------------------------------------------------------- Link... http://www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=602421 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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8. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Jan 14, 2008, 10:16 pm PST

STDromance.com is for those affected by STDs. According to the CDC, there are over 65 million Americans currently living with an STD, 19 million new STD infections each year, one in three sexually active men and women living with Herpes, and about 50% of all sexually active Americans affected by HPV. One-third of all single and dating Americans now exploring online personal ads (BusinessWeek, 2006) and niche dating has never been hotter.

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9. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, May 18, 2008, 9:55 pm PDT

I think that this is ridiculous! Basically what this is saying is that all boys and men need to be circumcised. When really the only sure fire way of not getting any kind of disease is to stay abstinent, which we know isn't going to happen. So the next thing would be to wear a condom and not to sleep with every member of the opposite sex. Some young teenage guy is going to read this, not the whole thing of course, but just the title and maybe a little part of it and think " well, I am circumcised, so I don't have to wear a condom. Like I said, this article is ridiculous!

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10. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, May 18, 2008, 9:58 pm PDT

I think that this is ridiculous! Basically what this is saying is that all boys and men need to be circumcised. When really the only sure fire way of not getting any kind of disease is to stay abstinent, which we know isn't going to happen. So the next thing would be to wear a condom and not to sleep with every member of the opposite sex. Some young teenage guy is going to read this, not the whole thing of course, but just the title and maybe a little part of it and think " well, I am circumcised, so I don't have to wear a condom. Like I said, this article is ridiculous!

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