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| align="center" | '''Married To:'''
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| align="center" | [[Ronald Gray]]
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| align="center" | '''Colleagues:'''
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| align="center" | [[Ronald Gray]]<br>[[Bertran Auvert]]<br>[[Robert C. Bailey]]<br>[[Thomas C. Quinn]]
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| align="center" | '''Funded By:'''
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| align="center" | [[Johns Hopkins]]<br>[[NIH]]
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| align="right" | [[Image:Gray and Wawer.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Ronald Gray]] with his wife,<br>and colleague, Maria Wawer.
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'''Maria J. Wawer''', {{MD}}, a professor at the [[Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health]],<ref>{{REFweb
 |url=https://publichealth.jhu.edu/faculty/736/maria-j-wawer
 |archived=
 |title= Maria J.Wawer, MD
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}}</ref> is a [[Bias|biased]] pro-circumcision researcher <ref>{{REFweb
 |last=NCBI, PubMed
 |first=
 |date=
 |title=Maria Wawer circumcision
 |url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Maria%20Wawer%20circumcision
 |accessdate=2011-04-24
}}</ref> looking for justifications to roll-out mass [[circumcision]] programs around the world. Wawer is married to another biased pro-circumcision researcher [[Ronald Gray]].<ref name="cutting">{{REFjournal
 |last=Willyard
 |first=Cassandra
 |init=C
 |date=2007
 |title=Cutting the Risk
 |journal=Johns Hopkins Magazine
 |volume=
 |issue=
 |pages=
 |url=http://www.jhu.edu/jhumag/0907web/cutting.html
 |accessdate=2011-04-24
}}</ref> Her ''research'' has been funded by [[Johns Hopkins]] and the [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]].<ref name="cutting"/> In the waiting room at their clinic, a music video promoting circumcision plays continuously.<ref>{{REFweb
 |last=JohnsHopkinsSPH
 |first=
 |date=2010-10-01
 |title=Rakai Project
 |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mXFdXJaG8k#t=8m37s
 |accessdate=2011-04-24
}}</ref><ref>{{REFweb
 |quote=Rakai Health Sciences Program funded the production of an MC promotion song which was done by Stephen Mugamba and Jemima Sanyu. This was done under the supervision of one Uganda's best audio producers; Henry Kiwuuwa of Grayce Records.
 |last=
 |first=
 |publisher=smugamba
 |date=2010-06-06
 |title=Rakai male circumcision video by Stephen Mugamba feat Jemima Sanyu
 |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rtEdNl322Q
 |accessdate=2011-04-24
}}</ref>

== Quotes ==
{{Citation
 |Title=When Wawer found out she could push circumcision
 |Text=You almost feel like crying.
 |Author=M. Wawer
 |Source=JohnsHopkinsSPH
 |ref=<ref>{{REFweb
 |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BHR9rnoelc#t=01m29s
 |last=Wawer
 |first=Maria J.
 |init=MJ
 |publisher=Wawer, JohnsHopkinsSPH
 |date=2009-05-29
 |title=Impact
}}</ref>
 |Comment=When she found a reason to push mass circumcision. How could she find joy in that?
}}

{{Citation
 |Title=
 |Text=Once circumcision programs become more widespread, more available, it's very likely that [[HIV]] positive men will also seek the procedure. Partly (because) you don't want to be the only guy on the block who hasn't been [[circumcised]].
 |Author=M. Wawer
 |Source=MedPageToday
 |ref=<ref>{{REFweb
 |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCRh1Q69Ry4#t=01m15s
 |title=CROI: Circumcising HIV-Pos Men Doesn't Block Transmission
 |last=Wawer
 |first=Maria J.
 |init=MJ
 |date=2008-02-08
}}</ref>
 |Comment=This is the goal? To make men feel uncomfortable?
}}

{{Citation
 |Title=
 |Text=We found a benefit to the ([[HIV]]) positive men of becoming circumcised.
 |Author=M. Wawer
 |Source=MedPageToday
 |ref=<ref>{{REFweb
 |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCRh1Q69Ry4#t=03m22s
 |title=CROI: Circumcising HIV-Pos Men Doesn't Block Transmission
 |last=Wawer
 |first=Maria J.
 |init=MJ
 |date=2008-02-08
}}</ref>
 |Comment=They are already [[HIV]] positive. You'd think this was a joke.
}}

{{Citation
 |Title=
 |Text=Where you don’t have complete [[keratinization]] of the remaining [[mucosa]], then that could in effect increase the transmission of (the) virus.
 |Author=M. Wawer
 |Source=MedPageToday
 |ref=<ref>{{REFweb
 |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCRh1Q69Ry4#t=04m41s
 |title=CROI: Circumcising HIV-Pos Men Doesn't Block Transmission
 |last=Wawer
 |first=Maria J.
 |init=MJ
 |date=2008-02-08
}}</ref>
 |Comment=While pro-circ [[HIV]] "researchers" are claiming keratinization is a fact, pushers such as [[Brian J. Morris]] and [[Jake H. Waskett]] claim there is no keratinization. The keratinization reduces sensation.
}}

{{Citation
 |Title=
 |Text=We are providing [[Adolescent and adult circumcision| male circumcision]] as a service now to negative men, but also to positive men. Again, because we don't want them to become stigmatized if they refuse the service.
 |Author=M. Wawer
 |Source=MedPageToday
 |ref=<ref>{{REFweb
 |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCRh1Q69Ry4#t=05m20s
 |title=CROI: Circumcising HIV-Pos Men Doesn't Block Transmission
 |last=Wawer
 |first=Maria J.
 |init=MJ
 |date=2008-02-08
}}</ref>
 |Comment=i.e., she promotes the cutting of anyone for any reason. No logic required.
}}

{{Citation
 |Title=
 |Text=It’s amazing, cultures do change once people see there's a real advantage of a certain action ([[circumcision]]) on their part.
 |Author=M. Wawer
 |Source=JohnsHopkinsSPH
 |ref=<ref>{{REFweb
 |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mXFdXJaG8k#t=08m41s
 |last=Wawer
 |first=Maria J.
 |init=MJ
 |publisher=Wawer, JohnsHopkinsSPH
 |date=2010-12-01
 |title=Rakai project
}}</ref>
 |Comment=You heard that right. She want's to make circumcision part of the culture. i.e., the norm.
}}

=== Contradictory quotes ===
{{Citation
 |Title=Male Circumcision does NOT protect women
 |Text=We haven't seen a benefit to women for the procedure.
 |Author=M. Wawer
 |Source=MedPageToday
 |ref=<ref>{{REFweb
 |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCRh1Q69Ry4#t=06m23s
 |last=Wawer
 |first=Maria J.
 |init=MJ
 |publisher=MedPageToday
 |date=2008-02-08
 |title=CROI: Circumcising HIV-Pos Men Doesn't Block Transmission
}}</ref>
 |Comment=In fact, she found that male circumcision increases risk of [[HIV]] transmission in women.
}}

{{Citation
 |Title=Male Circumcision DOES protect women
 |Text=You asked yourself the question, 'If it reduces the risk of acquisition it presumably reduces the risk of transmission to female partners." (Maria nods in agreement)
 |Author=Interviewer
 |Source=MedPageToday
 |ref=<ref>{{REFweb
 |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCRh1Q69Ry4#t=00m50s
 |publisher=MedPageToday
 |date=2008-02-08
 |title=CROI: Circumcising HIV-Pos Men Doesn't Block Transmission
}}</ref>
 |Comment=Ignoring her own findings when they don't support male circumcision.
}}

{{Citation
 |Title=Male Circumcision does NOT protect women
 |Text=Disappointingly, when we looked at the women partners of the (HIV) positive men, who've been circumcised, compared to the partners who had not been circumcised, we actually found a slightly higher rate of transmission from the positive circumcised men than from positive [[uncircumcised]] men.
 |Author=M. Wawer
 |Source=MedPageToday
 |ref=<ref>{{REFweb
 |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCRh1Q69Ry4#t=03m40s
 |last=Wawer
 |first=Maria J.
 |init=MJ
 |publisher=MedPageToday
 |date=2008-02-08
 |title=CROI: Circumcising HIV-Pos Men Doesn't Block Transmission
}}</ref>
 |Comment=Interestingly, Maria has said on numerous occasions that circumcision will reduce the rate of transmission to female partners, even though her research doesn't support this. Here she contradicts herself, yet again.
}}
==Circumcision does not prevent HIV infection==
=== Population-based studies ===
{{Population-based studies}}
===Two African surveys===
The previously reported studies were from developed Western nations. Now we have information from Sub_Saharan Africa.

French scientist [[Michel Garenne]], Ph.D. has published two reports in 2022 comparing the incidence of HIV infection in [[circumcised]] and [[intact]] men.

In his first report, Garenne presented the findings from a study in Lesotho, the enclave in South Africa. He reported:
<blockquote>
In couple studies, the effect of circumcision and VMMC on HIV was not significant, with similar transmission from female to male and male to female. The study questions the amount of effort and money spent on VMMC in Lesotho.<ref name="garenne2022A">{{REFjournal
 |last=Garenne
 |first=Michel
 |init=M
 |author-link=Michel Garenne
 |title=Changing relationships between HIV prevalence and circumcision in Lesotho
 |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35373731/
 |date=2022-04-04
 |journal=J Biosoc Sci
 |volume=online ahead of print
 |pages=1-16
 |DOI=10.1017/S0021932022000153
 |pubmedID=35373731
 |accessdate=2022-11-07
}}</ref> 
</blockquote> 

In his second report, Garenne (2022) presented information from six Sub-Saharan African nations (Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe). He reported:
<blockquote>
 "Results matched earlier observations made in South Africa that [[circumcised]] and [[intact]] men had similar levels of HIV infection."<ref name="garenne2022B">{{REFjournal
 |last=Garenne
 |first=Michael
 |init=M
 |author-link=
 |etal=no
 |title=Age-incidence and prevalence of HIV among intact and circumcised men: an analysis of PHIA surveys in Southern Africa
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 |journal=J Biosoc Sci
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 |date=2022-10-26
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 |pages=1-13
 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-biosocial-science/article/abs/ageincidence-and-prevalence-of-hiv-among-intact-and-circumcised-men-an-analysis-of-phia-surveys-in-southern-africa/CAA7E7BD5A9844F41C6B7CC3573B9E50
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 |quote=
 |pubmedID=36286328
 |pubmedCID=
 |DOI=10.1017/S0021932022000414 
 |accessdate=2022-11-07
}}</ref></blockquote>
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Circumcision and HIV]]

{{LINKS}}
* {{REFweb
 |url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/for-professionals/alleged-medical-benefits/hivaids/
 |title=HIV/AIDS
 |publisher=[[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)]]
 |date=2020
 |accessdate=2020-07-16
}}

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