Comments on: Nip the tip http://rhinocrisy.org/2007/03/nip-the-tip/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:42:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: saurabh http://rhinocrisy.org/2007/03/nip-the-tip/#comment-3392 saurabh Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:36:03 +0000 http://rhinocrisy.org/2007/03/nip-the-tip/#comment-3392 It's not something I follow especially closely - I don't recall hearing about this research before. I'm not sure what public health criteria are used to decide on a particular campaign, and maybe this is enough. The projection based on a 60% reduction in transmission to men is 6 million fewer HIV cases in 20 years. That seems like a lot, and maybe it's for lack of any better idea that this one is being pressed, but it also seems relatively tenuous that it would work as intended - I don't know that the sociological aspects of this are as well-studied, and that could go badly wrong. It’s not something I follow especially closely - I don’t recall hearing about this research before. I’m not sure what public health criteria are used to decide on a particular campaign, and maybe this is enough. The projection based on a 60% reduction in transmission to men is 6 million fewer HIV cases in 20 years. That seems like a lot, and maybe it’s for lack of any better idea that this one is being pressed, but it also seems relatively tenuous that it would work as intended - I don’t know that the sociological aspects of this are as well-studied, and that could go badly wrong.

]]> By: Saheli http://rhinocrisy.org/2007/03/nip-the-tip/#comment-3385 Saheli Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:28:09 +0000 http://rhinocrisy.org/2007/03/nip-the-tip/#comment-3385 Mist, I think it's <a href="http://ask.metafilter.com/29078/Good-clean-jokes#458251" rel="nofollow">traditional to make turn them into wallets</a>. . . Saurabh, I'm surprised at your reaction. I thought it was common knowledge that this had been lately but fairly firmly established and that people were trying to spread the information and the implementation. At last year's Toronto AIDS conference, UN Envoy Stephen Lewis made it his third point at the keynote. (<a href="http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/hcast_index.cfm?display=detail&hc=1814" rel="nofollow">Cntrl-F for Lewis</a>.) Mist, I think it’s traditional to make turn them into wallets. . .

Saurabh, I’m surprised at your reaction. I thought it was common knowledge that this had been lately but fairly firmly established and that people were trying to spread the information and the implementation. At last year’s Toronto AIDS conference, UN Envoy Stephen Lewis made it his third point at the keynote. (Cntrl-F for Lewis.)

]]> By: hedgehog http://rhinocrisy.org/2007/03/nip-the-tip/#comment-3212 hedgehog Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:33:59 +0000 http://rhinocrisy.org/2007/03/nip-the-tip/#comment-3212 Mmm, calamari. Mmm, calamari.

]]> By: Mist 1 http://rhinocrisy.org/2007/03/nip-the-tip/#comment-2932 Mist 1 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:54:51 +0000 http://rhinocrisy.org/2007/03/nip-the-tip/#comment-2932 What are they going to do with all those foreskins? What are they going to do with all those foreskins?

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