Study: No proof circumcision cuts gay male HIV risk

There is not enough evidence to say circumcision protects men from getting the AIDS virus during sex with other men even as studies show it protects them when having sex with women, US researchers said on Tuesday.

A review of 15 studies involving 53,567 gay and bisexual men in the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, India, Taiwan, Peru and the Netherlands failed to show a clear benefit for those who were circumcised, researchers from the US government's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Circumcised men were 14 percent less likely to be infected with the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, than those who were not uncircumcised, but the finding was not statistically significant, the CDC researchers said.