Male circumcision offers partial protection to HIV negative males who have unprotected sex with HIV positive females.

Male circumcision protects males against various Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDS) and STI’s. Uncircumcised men are more likely to harbour the cancer-causing HUMAN PAPILOMA VIRUS (HPV) in their fore skin.

Circumcision therefore offers protection from prostate cancer, and it also offers protection from ulcerative sexually transmitted disease including genital herpes, syphilis and cancroids.

Safe Male circumcision further offers protection from retraction of the glands [head of the penis] and other recurrent infections of the foreskin which leads to loss of skin elasticity. It also offers protection from balanitis, inflammation of the head of penis and protect from thrush caused by Candida.

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