Talk:Circumcision/Sample PubMed

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The following represents the first two pages of results found when performing a search for 'circumcision hiv' using the PubMed search engine. The search was conducted today, within about an hour of this post. Although this is non-random (PubMed usually lists results in rough reverse chronological order), it should be reasonably non-biased, and probably less biased than any selection by a less systematic method would be. Two pages is a fairly small number of articles; if anyone wishes to add to the table that would be appreciated.

Note: the purpose of this sample was to identify and classify views specifically regarding circumcision and HIV. Consequently, the "classification" column indicates whether the viewpoint expressed was positive that circumcision reduced the risk of HIV or not. Thus in this context, "positive" does not indicate that circumcision is a good thing generally; it has a more specific meaning than that. I've included the rationale for each classification. In some cases definite classification was judged to be impossible from the data available; in these cases I have left it as unclassified.

(I'm inserting this here because it is expected that it will be useful to those responding to the Request for Comment, which suggests that readers 'see above'.) Jakew (talk) 16:42, 27 July 2009 (UTC)