Medical research from Johns Hopkins University of more than 3,000 men in Uganda found that those who are circumcised have a significantly lower risk of contracting a sexually transmitted disease.

Specifically, the researchers said that circumcised men had a 25-percent lower risk of catching herpes and a 35-percent lower risk of contracting the human pappilomavirus.

The virus can be spread to women and causes cervical cancer and genital warts in both sexes, the BBC reports.

The researchers from the Baltimore, Md. school had already conducted studies that suggest male circumcision cuts down on the spread of HIV among heterosexual men, according to WebMD News.

Previous studies suggested that monogamous women with circumcised sexual partners reduced their risk of developing cervical cancer by half, compared with women with uncircumcised partners, WebMD reported.