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You said that you are uncircumcised or you have had sex with someone who is uncircumcised.

Circumcision appears not only to reduce a man's risk of contracting HIV by half, according to two trials conducted in Africa; the female partners of circumcised men were also 30 percent less likely to become infected with HIV. Circumcision also significantly reduced the rate at which men infected women with human papillomavirus (the virus that can cause cervical cancer). However, being circumcised is not a guarantee that a man will not get or pass along HIV; prevention tools, such as condoms, must be used. Also, the trials only studied heterosexual sex in Africa, and circumcision's effects on the risks of oral and anal sex are not known.