Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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Run by:
Bill Gates
Senior Fellow:
Rao Gupta
Endorsed and supported by:
Bertran Auvert
Bill Clinton
Oprah Winfrey
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Bill Gates, Bertran Auvert,
Dirk Taljaard, Cynthia Nhlapo.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation actively promote male circumcision as "HIV prevention",[1] traveling to Africa to promote it.[2] Bill Gates was convinced to promote circumcision by Bertran Auvert.[3]


Media Funding & Objectivity

According to a report in the Seattle Times, the Gates Foundation has become a force in journalism, and contributes millions of dollars to nonprofit and for-profit media to help cover issues of interest to the foundation. Not just MSNBC, but also ABC, NPR, PBS, and Public Radio, as well as others. Many worry that its growing support of media organizations blur the line between journalism and advocacy.[4]

According to this report, "some grants have indeed spelled out coverage topics, including male circumcision to reduce transmission of AIDS, and clinical trials — the latter of which are crucial for Gates-supported vaccines and drugs being tested in the developing world."

This seems to apply particularly to some of the Foundation flag programs, such as the Voluntary Male Circumcision initiatives for Africa, where according to a journalist, "as a government policy, it appears circumcision is reluctantly promoted by some MPs because other health-related and donor-funded initiatives are tied to this programme."[5]

The case of the disappearing articles

An article "Circumcision does not affect HIV in U.S. men" disappeared from MSN[6] Screenshot [7]

The same article (or an article with the same title) is still available in Reuters[8]

Another article titled "Scientists discover natural barrier to HIV" referring to the Langerhans cells of the foreskin, also disappeared from MSN:[9] Screenshot [10]

However, again the information is still available in other places:[11]

These articles and the core study are specially intriguing because traditionally it was thought that the Langerhans cells of the Prepuce (foreskin) constituted an entry point for HIV[12], and this concept is one of the reasons behind the hypothesis that circumcision may reduce the risk of a male becoming infected with HIV from a female partner. This Dutch study contradicts this idea, by stating that the Langerhans cells block HIV.[13]

Control of the World Health Organization

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. reports that huge contributions from the Gates Foundation to the WHO gives Bill Gates "leverage and control over WHO's $5.6 budget and over international health policy".[14]

Quotes

“ Circumcision Studies
Bertran Auvert, is so modest about his work, but he has new theories that we're putting money behind and he is just making it work.
– Bill Gates (Newsweek)[15]
“ Circumcision is...
...cheap, effective, and easy to apply
– Bill Gates (Reuters)[16]

Unusual medicine

Holy Water Healing.[17]

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Sadism

Crying Baby Symphony.[18]

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Criticism

The VMMC Experience Project has published a massive, illustrated 153-page report on VMMC in Africa for the United Nations.[19]

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.[20]
  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.[21]

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

External links

References

  1. ↑ REFweb Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Search Results: Circumcision. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
  2. ↑ REFweb Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (2008). Search Results: Circumcision Africa. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
  3. ↑ REFweb Lyons, Daniel (25 January 2010). Saving The World 2.0. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
    Quote: How do you address global hunger, epidemics, and poverty? According to Bill Gates, it takes R&D, software, and plenty of money.
  4. ↑ REFnews Doughton, Sandi (19 February 2011)."Does Gates funding of media taint objectivity?", The Seattle Times. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
    Quote: Better-known for its battles against global disease, the Gates Foundation has also become a force in journalism. The foundation's contributions to nonprofit and for-profit media have helped spur coverage of global health, development and education issues. But some people worry that its growing support of media organizations blurs the line between journalism and advocacy.
  5. ↑ REFnews Mukundu, Rashweat (1 October 2012)."Zimbabwe: Will Circumcision Change Behaviour or Reinforce Machismo?", All Africa. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
    Quote: As a government policy, it appears circumcision is reluctantly promoted by some MPs because other health-related and donor-funded initiatives are tied to this programme.
  6. ↑ REFnews MSNBC. "Circumcision does not affect HIV in U.S. men". Retrieved 2 October 2012.
    Quote: Text: We're sorry. The text content of this page is no longer available. Discuss: Circumcision does not affect HIV in U.S. men 4 total comments Removing foreskin no protection for American men of color, study finds
  7. ↑ Archive (2012-10-02)
  8. ↑ REFnews Fox, Maggie (4 December 2009)."Circumcision does not affect HIV in U.S. men", MSNBC. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
    Quote: Black and Latino men were just as likely to become infected with the AIDS virus whether they were circumcised or not, Greg Millett of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found. "We also found no protective benefit for a subset of black MSM (men who have sex with men) who also had recent sex with female partners," Millett told reporters in a telephone briefing.
  9. ↑ REFweb MSNBC (2 October 2012). Scientists discover natural barrier to HIV.
  10. ↑ Archive (2012-10-02)
  11. ↑ REFnews Mundell, E. J. (5 March 2007)."Scientists discover natural barrier to HIV", Washington Post. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
    Quote: Researchers have discovered that cells in the mucosal lining of human genitalia produce a protein that "eats up" invading HIV -- possibly keeping the spread of the AIDS more contained than it might otherwise be. Even more important, enhancing the activity of this protein, called Langerin, could be a potent new way to curtail the transmission of the virus that causes AIDS, the Dutch scientists added.
  12. ↑ REFjournal Kawamura T, Kurtz SE, Blauvelt A, Shimada S. The role of Langerhans cells in the sexual transmission of HIV. J Dermatol Sci. December 2005; 40(3): 147-55. PMID. DOI.
  13. ↑ REFjournal de Witte L, Nabatov A, Pion M, Fluitsma D, de Jong MAWP, de Gruijl T, Piguet V, van Kooyk Y, Geijtenbeek TBH. Langerin is a natural barrier to HIV-1 transmission by Langerhans cells PDF. Nature Medicine. 4 March 2007; 13(3): 367-71. PMID. PMC. DOI. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  14. ↑ REFbook Kennedy, Jr., Robert F. (2021): The Real Anthony Fauci. New York: Skyhorse Publishing. P. 301. ISBN 978-I51076680-8. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
  15. ↑ Lyons, D. (2010, January 10). Saving the world, 2.0. Newsweek.
  16. ↑ Kelland, K. (2010, July 19). Bill Clinton & Bill Gates want value for money in AIDS fight. Reuters.
  17. ↑ REFweb Holy Water Healing, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
    Quote: Can science and faith work together to fight HIV and tuberculosis?
  18. ↑ REFweb Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Crying Baby Symphony. Retrieved 27 June 2011.
  19. ↑ REFdocument Fish, Max: Circumcision Campaigns: African experience and human rights: The U.N. Report PDF, VMMC Experience Project. (7 May 2019). Retrieved 15 May 2021.
  20. ↑ 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.
  21. ↑ 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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