CDC May Recommend Routine Circumcision

In an attempt to slow the spread of HIV, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might begin recommending circumcisions for all infant boys. The announcement comes out of this week’s National HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta. The CDC likely won’t release a formal draft of the proposal for another four to six months, but speculation on it already has emotions flaring.

For more on the debate, we are joined by Dana Goldstein, public health reporter and associate editor for The American Prospect magazine; and Dr. Roy Gulick, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.