The response to male circumcision initiatives in eastern and southern Africa has gone much better than experts predicted.
Dr. Eric Goosby, the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, said today that men obviously want to be circumcised because it is a protective factor against contracting HIV, but he said there also was a powerful X factor:
Sex.
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