To the Editor:
Re “City Health Dept. Plans to Promote Circumcision to Reduce Spread of AIDS” (news article, April 5):
The New York City Health Department has not planned, developed or announced a campaign to encourage at-risk men to get circumcised. Like other domestic health agencies, we are encouraging people to discuss and study this issue.
Because circumcision has the potential to decrease H.I.V. transmission by more than half, we hope that men who choose the procedure will have access to it. A campaign to promote circumcision in this country would be premature without stronger evidence, but the time is right for a communitywide dialogue.
Thomas R. Frieden, M.D.
New York City
Health Commissioner
New York, April 9, 2007
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