Hawking of circumcision on World AIDS Day by various U.S. government agencies

The White House Blog - American Leadership to Reach an AIDS-Free Generation. Excerpt:

'As President Obama said in his remarks and his World AIDS Day Proclamation, scientific advances have provided us with a unique opportunity for dramatic gains in the global response to HIV/AIDS. The concept of ‘combination prevention,’ through which we rely on multiple prevention interventions tailored to needs in the countries where we work, is at the center of this effort. The President outlined plans to expand our combination prevention work, including prevention of mother-to-child transmission, voluntary medical male circumcision, and condoms.'

Department of State Press Statement - World AIDS Day 2011. Excerpt:

'This vision of an AIDS-free generation can only be realized by working together. Partner governments, civil society, the private sector and multilateral organizations like the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria must collaborate and share best practices. We must engage the world’s brightest scientists, advocates, and public health experts to find more effective ways to fight HIV. High-impact interventions like antiretroviral treatment, prevention of mother-to-child transmission, and voluntary medical male circumcision have the potential to move us toward the end of this epidemic.'

NIH News Release - NIH Statement on World AIDS Day 2011. Excerpt:

'As a result of NIH-sponsored research, we have known for some time that the use of antiretroviral drugs during pregnancy can prevent HIV transmission from mother to child. More recently, medically supervised adult male circumcision was shown to decrease by more than half the risk of female-to-male sexual transmission in communities where men are not circumcised. We also have long known that correct and consistent condom use can prevent sexual transmission of the virus.

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Mathematical models indicate that the use of parallel approaches to HIV prevention in a community could dramatically change the trajectory of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Such approaches could include scaling up medically supervised adult male circumcision, consistent and proper use of condoms, the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission, and substantially increasing the number of HIV-infected individuals who receive antiretroviral therapy.'