AIDS-Free World

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Run By:
Stephen Lewis
Paula Donovan
Promotes:
Routine Infant Circumcision

AIDS-Free World is an international advocacy organization with a small staff that works virtually from a dozen locations in the US and Canada, Africa, the Caribbean and Europe.[1] Co-Directors Paula Donovan and Stephen H. Lewis founded AIDS-Free World in 2007.[1][2] Stephen H. Lewis and Paula Donovan use this organization to gather funding for male circumcision programs.

Quotes

“ Orgy of Male Bonding
There was some titter of laughter and gentile applause which resonated throughout the room. So I felt it was the appropriate moment to tell the crowd that I was circumcised. Which I did. There followed what can only be described as an Orgy of Male Bonding. I have never been so embraced and hugged so extravagantly by numbers of people simultaneously as they conveyed to me that they understood the importance of circumcision and recognized that it's withstood the transmission of the virus.
– Stephen H. Lewis[3]
“ Paula Donovan (UNICEF)
She [ Paula Donovan ] realized that male circumcision was a good preventative way to slow the spread of AIDS. So she took that analysis further. She suggested to the male leadership in Nairobi, that UNICEF propose that circumcision accompany the regular process of immunization of infants... Paula was easily 10 years ahead of her time, because that's exactly what's being discussed in several countries now... and what did the UNICEF hierarchy do at the time? They grabbed their genitals in protective embrace and laughed it off like only male sexists can laugh things off. ...the UN took more than a decade to see male circumcision for the inspired preventative technology that it is.
– Stephen H. Lewis[4]
“ Circumcising Infants to protect against HIV
USAID, UNAIDS and the World Health Organization conducted a fascinating analysis to estimate the value of scaling up circumcision to reach 80% of the adult and newborn male population in 14 African countries by 2015. ...It's really incredible when you think about it, and it's already happening.
– Stephen H. Lewis[5]
“ Ancient Blood Ritual is a new Technology
The most unexpected and successful preventative technology, which has been chronicled in the last couple of years, is male circumcision.
– Stephen H. Lewis[6]
“ Extraordinary Hypocrisy & Sexism
The sexual and gender inequality compromises the lives women lead. [...] Female genital mutilation is a particularly awful practice. [...] The discrimination, the panoply of discrimination that is visited on women in this world is just appalling, and it obviously sabotages the lives they lead. ...I live in a feminist family and I love it. I think the feminist analysis is by far the most insightful. ...The single most important struggle on the planet, is the struggle for gender equality. [...] It all takes time in dealing with men. Dealing with male sexual behavior, to change male sexual behavior is going to be a couple of generations. ...My wife has often said on public platforms--much to my mortification--that it took her 20 years to turn me into a human being, and then the next 25 or 26 were tolerable. ...It takes all of us time. Men are resistant to change.
– Stephen H. Lewis[7]

Population-based studies

September 2021 saw the publication of two huge population studies on the relationship of circumcision and HIV infection:

  1. Mayan et al. (2021) carried out a massive empirical study of the male population of the province of Ontario, Canada (569,950 males), of whom 203,588 (35.7%) were circumcised between 1991 and 2017. The study concluded that circumcision status is not related to risk of HIV infection.[8]
  2. Morten Frisch & Jacob Simonsen (2021) carried out a large scale empirical population study in Denmark of 855,654 males regarding the alleged value of male circumcision in preventing HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in men. They found that circumcised men have a higher rate of STI and HIV infection overall than intact men.[9]

No association between lack of circumcision and risk of HIV infection was found by either study. There now is credible evidence that the massive, expensive African circumcision programs have not been effective in preventing HIV infection.

See also

  • Stephen H. Lewis -- Benefactor of Donovan. Headed UNAIDS, promotes infant circumcision.
  • Paula Donovan -- Benefactor of Stephen Lewis. Worked at UNICEF, promotes infant circumcision.
  • UNAIDS -- Stephen was former head of UNAIDS
  • UNICEF -- Paula Donovan of UNICEF is a benefactor of Lewis.

References

  1. ↑ a b REFweb AIDS Free World. Who We Are - AIDS Free World. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
  2. ↑ REFweb Lewis, Stephen H. (6 January 2010). Male Circumcision, part 1, AIDSFreeWorld. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
  3. ↑ Fora, TV. (2008). Stephen Lewis: disease and climate change in Africa.
  4. ↑ Lewis, S. (2010, January 06). Male circumcision, part 1. Retrieved
  5. ↑ Lewis, S. (2010, January 07). Male circumcision, part 2. Retrieved
  6. ↑ Fora, TV. (2008). Stephen Lewis: disease and climate change in Africa.
  7. ↑ Lewis, S. (2010, February 02). Stephen lewis co-dir, aids free world.
  8. ↑ REFjournal Mayan M, Hamilton RJ, Juurlink DN, Austin PC, Jarvi KA. Circumcision and Risk of HIV Among Males From Ontario, Canada. J Urol. 23 September 2021; PMID. DOI. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
    Quote: We found that circumcision was not independently associated with the risk of acquiring HIV among men from Ontario, Canada.
  9. ↑ REFjournal Frisch M, Simonsen J. Non-therapeutic male circumcision in infancy or childhood and risk of human immunodeficiency virus and other sexually transmitted infections: national cohort study in Denmark. Eur J Epidemiol. 26 September 2021; 37: 251–9. PMID. DOI. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
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