Here's the link to a 26 July, 2005 BBC news story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/h...th/4719409.stm that says UN health agencies want to use circumcision as a method to stop AIDS, if it is proven effective.
The same illogic of using circumcision for disease prevention would also say we should extract everybody's teeth to prevent tooth decay and the resulting infections that kill many people in Africa.