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== Proposed Guidelines On 2 December 2014, the CDC released an anonymous [https://www.arclaw.org/wp-content/uploads/CDC-2014-0012-0003.pdf proposed guideline] for Counseling Male Patients counseling male patients and Parents ==parents regarding male [[circumcision]] and the prevention of [[HIV]] infection, STIs and other health outcomes to which the authors declined to affix their names. The proposed guidelines seem to be in line with the AAP's Policy Statement of 2012 and also includes considerations for counseling of adolescents and adults in accordance with their [[HIV]] risk behavior, [[HIV]] status, sexual preferences and other factors. While the media tried to present these guidelines as an immediate endorsement of circumcision, the guidelines are far from recommending universal circumcision and in fact acknowledge that neonatal circumcision presents ethical concerns over the violation of autonomy.
On 2 December 2014, the CDC released an anonymous == [[httpsCircWatch]] ==* {{REFweb |url=http://www.arclawcircwatch.org/wpcdc-content/uploads/CDCcircumcision-2014and-0012misleading-0003.pdf proposed guideline] for counseling male patients and parents regarding male [[circumcision]] and the prevention of [[HIV]] infection, STIs and other health outcomes to which the authors declined to affix their names. The proposed guidelines seem to be in line with the AAP's Policy Statement of 2012 and also includes considerations for counseling of adolescents and adults in accordance with their [[HIV]] risk behavior, [[HIV]] status, sexual preferences and other factors. While the media tried to present these guidelines as headlines/ |title=CircWatch offers an immediate endorsement of circumcision, the guidelines are far from recommending universal circumcision and in fact acknowledge that neonatal circumcision presents ethical concerns over the violation of autonomy. Read our analysis of the CDC guidelines [}}* {{REFweb |url=http://circwatch.org/tag/cdc-circumcision-and-misleading-headlines/ our analysis of |title=Post about the guidelines]CDC on CircWatch}}
== [[CircWatch]] ==
* [http://circwatch.org/tag/cdc/ Post about the CDC on CircWatch]
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[[Image:CDC.jpg|right|thumb|Centers for Disease Control]]
The '''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is are an agency of the [[United States]] Government in the Department of Health and Human Services. The {{FULLPAGENAME}} is responsible for protecting the public health of the [[United StateStates]]. The {{FULLPAGENAME}} is commonly called the "CDC". Its Their main office is in Atlanta, Georgia{{USSC|GA}}.
The current director is [[Rochelle Paula Walensky]], who received an M.D. {{MD}} from [[Johns Hopkins]] (noted for the contributions it receives from the [[Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation]] and its advocacy of male [[circumcision]]) and a M.P.H. am {{MPH}} from the Harvard School of Public Health.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.cdc.gov/about/leadership/director.htm
|title=Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH
}}</ref> Dr. Walenksky presents herself as an an expert on [[HIV]]. Dr. Walensky, who is a member of Temple Emanuel of Newton, Massachusetts with three sons presumably [[circumcised]] in accordance with the [[Abrahamic covenant]], is a Biden-appointee who took office on 20 January 2021.
==The CDC and male circumcision==
The CDC began to promote male [[circumcision]] as a [[HIV]]-prevention method as of February 2008.<ref>{{REFweb
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The CDC seems to be obcessed obsessed with male [[circumcision]]. A search on the CDC website now produces 760 files that mention circumcision.There evidently is a strong pro-circumcision culture at the CDC.
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== Proposed fuidelines for counseling male patients and parents ==
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