Will a falling dollar and soaring food prices undo circumcision policy in Africa?
A falling US dollar, a soaring world population, climate change, food shortages ... will this be the undoing of circumcision policy? Change and history rarely turn out as expected. If food becomes an issue worldwide, as it frequently has in Africa, and the donor dollar, which is at historic lows against other world currencies, continues to lose its place in the world trading order, who knows how priorities will change ...
Follow the link for an article detailing this emerging problem and game-changing development.
Link: Focus: Hunger. Strikes. Riots. The food crisis bites | Environment | The Observer.
Isn't there like some sort of "law" that states that NOTHING ever turns out as planned?
I so can't wait for that turn of events where not only does circumcision fail in Africa, HIV sky-rockets, and all those circumcision ilk feeding off of HIV funds are publicly humiliated for the exstorting quacks they are. WHO and UNAIDS drop circ for HIV like it's hot, and our dear friends Halperin and Bailey don't get their circumcised world wish.
Posted by: Joe in CA | Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 01:53 AM
"I so can't wait for that turn of events where not only does circumcision fail in Africa, HIV sky-rockets,..." Joe, this was not well-worded. NOBODY (least of all you) wants HIV to skyrocket. The forthcoming failure of mass circumcision to have any effect on the HIV epidemic (and probably to make it worse, as boys and men are circumcised with dirty instruments and circumcised men think they are immune) is an unmitigated tragedy (and possibly a crime). Our Schadenfreude at Halperin and Bailey et al.'s shame (if they don't wriggle out of it: "not enough circumcisions"/"not enough cut off"/"too late" etc.) should be balanced by despair at the waste of human life.
Posted by: Hugh | Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 04:50 PM
Well said, Hugh. I agree, and this website is not about embarrassing or besting Halperin, Bailey, Klausner, Kilmarx and Co. It is about HIV prevention and the folly of circumcision as a prophylactic measure. Let's not lose sight of that ...
Posted by: David | Friday, April 18, 2008 at 01:58 PM
Joe in CA forgets that just as Halperin and Bailey may not get their circumcised world wish neither will those with a universal foreskin world wish.
Posted by: jones | Friday, April 25, 2008 at 06:31 PM
Joe in CA forgets that just as Halperin and Bailey may not get their circumcised world wish neither will those with a universal foreskin world wish.
Posted by: jones | Friday, April 25, 2008 at 06:33 PM