The infections can lead to more serious problems like high blood pressure or kidney failure. Female circumcision could decrease similar types of infections, and no one ever suggests that. But if UTIs are more common in uncircumcised babies, that doesn't budge foreskin conservationists. You won't get breast cancer if you do operations on young girls to remove breasts. We could pull teeth to prevent decay.
Similar issues surround penile cancer, basically an affliction of the foreskin wearer.
Among uncircumcised men, the rate is 2.2 cases per 100,000, while the disease is virtually unheard of among those who have been snipped. Lay down our scalpels, foreskin foes declare, and penile cancer cases would skyrocket. But comparisons between countries show that prevention is often just a question of good hygiene. A study conducted in 1989 by Francis Plummer of the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg and William Cameron of the University of Ottawa showed circumcision decreased the likelihood of AIDS among Kenyans five- and eightfold. Another study in Africa supported the conclusion.