The various statements by pediatric bodies were written before the publication of increasingly compelling evidence, much of it from Africa, that circumcision significantly reduces the risk (i.e. reduces it to 1/6th) of acquiring HIV/AIDS. This is not to say that it eliminates the risk. But a reduction that large is of great importance to everyone, and especially to boys/men in Africa, where anti-retroviral medications are out of reach, both financially and geographically, of the huge majority. Why deny such an advantage by discouraging so simple and widely practiced an operation?
Tom.