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The [[Male Circumcision Consortium]] (MCC) is run by [http://www.fhi360.org/en/index.htm FHI 360] (Family Health International), a group that receives sponsorship from the [[Gates Foundation]]. The MCC runs [[Clearinghouse_on_Male_Circumcision|The Clearinghouse on Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention]] ([http://malecircumcision.org malecircumcision.org]). They describe themselves as a "collaborative effort to generate and share information resources with the international public health community, civil society groups, health policy makers, and programme managers."
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Their actual goal is to function as a propaganda arm of the pro-circ agenda in Africa and to function as a marketing tool for the mass circumcision campaign. The research on their site is [[Bias| heavily biased ]] in favor of [[circumcision]]. Their funder, FHI360, is a "social marketing" outfit, essentially a PR firm established for the purpose of changing people's behavior for ostensibly socially positive ends. According to their website, FHI "serves as the webmaster for the Clearinghouse on Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention, and in partnership with [[WHO]], [[UNAIDS ]] and AVAC, develops and selects content for the site."
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* [http://www.healthpolicyinitiative.com/index.cfm?id=index Health Policy Initiative] by [[USAID]]
* [http://www.malecircumcision.org/about http://www.malecircumcision.org/about]
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* [[Circumcision and HIV]]
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