No clear mechanism on how to remove the foreskin protects men against HIV, but cutting the traditional penis in Papua New Guinea can help clarify.
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Stuart Turville was a surprising element to declare last September, when he arrived here in Papua New Guinea ( PNG) on a Friday night flight: a cooler that contained five freshly harvested foreskins packed on ice. "Coming up with samples like this is always a little amusing to customs officials in Australia," said Turville, a virologist at the Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity in the company in Sydney.
teamTurville regularly imports this precious cargo from its neighbor to answer a basic question, but unexplored :? How circumcision protects against HIV
studies have clearly shown that the work of medical circumcision, but confusion remains about the mechanism. surgically removed foreskins PNG men who choose to go through the medical circumcision offers an interesting opportunity to address the issue. While some had intact foreskins completely, many had different cuts of as traditional penis boys ( see main article)
PHOTO:. THOMAS HOPE, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY'S FEINBERG sCHOOL oF MEDICINE
Turville is the head of laboratory studies which incubate these foreskins with HIV fluorescently labeled (photo). This allows researchers to assess how the transfer process is affected by factors that vary between foreskins, including the degree of keratinization (in red) and the presence of immune target cells.
The Surprisingly few groups of studies published about the circumcision protection mechanism, said virologist Thomas Hope's Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, veteran researcher foreskin and HIV who began working with the Kirby Institute group. "And much of what is wrong."
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