Medical News Today,
Cities with substantial uncircumcised populations in 1950 tended to have higher HIV-2 prevalence from 1985.
In West African cities, male circumcision rates in 1950 were negatively correlated with HIV-2 prevalence from 1985, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by João Sousa from the University of Leuven, Belgium, and colleagues.