This, however, does not change the findings of John and Pat Caldwell, who tell a frightening story. With over 30 years experience in family dynamics and fertility control in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caldwells began working on sexually transmitted diseases there in the 1970s, taking all existing theories into account. The most popular theory is that the disease itself originated there, however, this theory is undermined by the fact that AIDS cases occurred in hospitals in Uganda and Rwanda at the same time as they did in the West. The only common factor in the spread of AIDS in Africa that the Caldwells found was the issue of male circumcision, which was generally unpracticed in the heart of the AIDS Belt - Central African Republic, Southern Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Botswana (Caldwell, p.40).
In 1989, a joint Canadian-Kenyan medical research team at Kenyatta Medical School in Nairobi reported that during the previous year, the AIDS rate was higher among Luo migrants from Western Kenya than among the Kikuyu of Central Kenya. The uncircumcised Luo men were more likely to have syphilis or chancroids - a sexually transmitted disease characterized by soft sores in the private area. They also had an unexpected elevated risk of contracting HIV (Caldwell, p.41).
An American team, led by John Bongaarts of the Population Council, also found that the regions across sub-Saharan Africa with high levels of HIV infection among local peoples correspond remarkably with the areas where men were not circumcised. The research drew upon statistics from the World Health Organization (Caldwell, p.44).
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This, however, does not change the findings of John and Pat Caldwell, who tell a frightening story. With over 30 years experience in family dynamics and fertility control in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caldwells began working on sexually transmitted diseases there in the 1970s, taking all existing theories into account. The most popular theory is that the disease itself originated there, however, this theory is undermined by the fact that AIDS cases occurred in hospitals in Uganda and Rwanda at the same time as they did in the West. The only common factor in the spread of AIDS in Africa that the Caldwells found was the issue of male circumcision, which was generally unpracticed in the heart of the AIDS Belt - Central African Republic, Southern Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Botswana (Caldwell, p.40).
In 1989, a joint Canadian-Kenyan medical research team at Kenyatta Medical School in Nairobi reported that during the previous year, the AIDS rate was higher among Luo migrants from Western Kenya than among the Kikuyu of Central Kenya. The uncircumcised Luo men were more likely to have syphilis or chancroids - a sexually transmitted disease characterized by soft sores in the private area. They also had an unexpected elevated risk of contracting HIV (Caldwell, p.41).
An American team, led by John Bongaarts of the Population Council, also found that the regions across sub-Saharan Africa with high levels of HIV infection among local peoples correspond remarkably with the areas where men were not circumcised. The research drew upon statistics from the World Health Organization (Caldwell, p.44).
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