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'''Aaron J. Fink''', M.D., ({{LifeData|birth=1926-06-23|1994birthplace=Chicago, Cook County, Illinois|birthcountry=USA|death=1992-02-05|deathplace= Colma, San Mateo County, California|deathcountry=USA}}<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://de.findagrave.com/memorial/116218820/aaron-j-fink |title=Dr Aaron J Fink |publisher=Find A Grave |accessdate=2020-04-10}}</ref>) was a California urologist, and the father of the idea that circumcision could prevent AIDS. He came up with the idea in 1986,<ref>{{REFbook
|last=Glick
|first=Leonard
== Final letters ==
Fink sent a letter to the British medical journal, prompting two hostile replies, both from Leeds physicians.<ref>Fink, Aaron J. "Newborn Circumcision: A Long-term Strategy for AIDS Prevention" (letter). Journal of the Royal Medical Society 82 (1989): 695.</ref><ref>Waugh M.A., Spicer R.D ''Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine'' 83. (April 1990): 278.</ref> In 1991 Fink wrote another letter, claiming infants have no memory of painful events until age six months or older.<ref>Fink, Aaron J. "Circumcision and Sand." ''Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine'' 84 (November 1991): 696</ref> He died in 1994, but the campaign to link HIV infection to the foreskin continues to this day.
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* {{REFbook
|last=Fink
|first=Aaron J.
|year=1988
|title=Circumcision: A Parent's Decision for Life
|url=https://www.amazon.com/Circumcision-Decision-Aaron-J-Fink/dp/0962134708
|isbn=978-0962134708
|accessdate=2020-04-10
}}
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