Agnes Binagwahois the Minister of Health of the Republic of Rwanda and recipient of an honorary PhD in sciences from Dartmouth University for her lifetime achievement in treating and preventing AIDS.

NEW YORK (July 31, 2008) -- With the recent endorsement by the World Health Organization (WHO) and scientists worldwide of adult male circumcision as an important strategy for HIV prevention, there is ...

A device invented by Jianzhong Shang, a Chinese inventor from Wuhu City, is poised to become not only a new generation mohel-assist device, but a major medgadget in the world wide fight to prevent HIV ...

Government is looking to fast track the introduction of a non-surgical medical male circumcision device, PrePex, that officials believe will decrease the number of deaths and injuries caused by unsafe ...

Medical experts have introduced a device that makes male circumcision painless, cheaper and faster. With it, it takes eight minutes, not 25, to circumcise. This means older people who feared ...

The health department plans to have "formal talks" with traditional leaders about the possibility of introducing a new nonsurgical device to circumcision ceremonies, according to national HIV director ...

If there is a fissure in the great wall of economic might that is China, it's the innovation deficit. It's a bit ironic that it has come to this in a country that invented papermaking and, for better ...

The Associated Press examines efforts to prevent the spread of HIV by circumcising "about 50 million men across Africa - where 70% of the world's HIV-infected population lives." The procedure has been ...

Without social pressure, most people give little thought to male circumcision. This simple surgical procedure removes the foreskin, a hood of skin covering the head of the resting (flaccid) penis. But ...