Wednesday, 17th of February 2010 |
Hugues TEMPLE-BOYER
Project Director
Conseil Santé
92-98, Bld Victor Hugo
92110 Clichy, France
Lee Warner,1
Khalil G. Ghanem,4
Daniel R. Newman,1,2
Maurizio Macaluso,1
Patrick S. Sullivan,3,a and
Emily J. Erbelding4,5
Divisions of 1Reproductive Health, 2Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention, and 3HIV/AIDS Prevention–Surveillance and Epidemiology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia; 4Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and 5Baltimore City Health Department, Baltimore, Maryland.
Background.Male circumcision has received international attention as an intervention for reducing HIV infection among highâ€risk heterosexual men; however, few US studies have evaluated its association with the risk of HIV infection.
Methods.We analyzed visit records for heterosexual African American men who underwent HIV testing while attending sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics in Baltimore, Maryland, from 1993 to 2000. We used multivariable binomial regression to evaluate associations between circumcision and the risk of HIV infection among visits by patients with known and unknown HIV exposure.
Results.Overall, 1096 (2.7%) of 40,571 clinic visits yielded positive HIV test results. Among 394 visits by patients with known HIV exposure, circumcision was significantly associated with lower HIV prevalence (10.2% vs. 22.0%; adjusted prevalence rate ratio [PRR], 0.49 [95% confidence interval [CI], 0.26–0.93]). Conversely, among 40,177 visits by patients with unknown HIV exposure, circumcision was not associated with reduced HIV prevalence (2.5% vs. 3.3%; adjusted PRR, 1.00 [95% CI, 0.86–1.15]), and age 25 years old and diagnosis of ulcerative STD were associated with increased prevalence.
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