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|-
| [[Image:Maria-Wawer.jpg|200px]]
|- style="background: #DCDCDC"
| align="center" | '''Married To:'''
|-
| align="center" | [[Ronald Gray]]
|- style="background: #DCDCDC"
| align="center" | '''Colleagues:'''
|-
| align="center" | [[Ronald Gray]]<br>[[Bertran Auvert]]<br>[[Robert C. Bailey]]<br>[[Thomas Quinn]]
|- style="background: #DCDCDC"
| align="center" | '''Funded By:'''
|-
| align="center" | [[Johns Hopkins]]<br>[[NIH]]
|-
| align="right" | [[Image:Gray and Wawer.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Ronald Gray]] with his wife,<br>and colleague, Maria Wawer.
|}
Maria J. Wawer is a biased pro-circumcision researcher <ref>
{{cite web
| url = http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Maria%20Wawer%20circumcision
| title = Maria Wawer circumcision
| accessdate = 2011-04-24
| work = PubMed
| publisher = NCBI
}}
</ref> looking for justifications to roll-out mass circumcision programs around the world. Wawer is married to another biased pro-circumcision researcher [[Ronald Gray]].<ref name="cutting">
{{cite journal
| title = Cutting the Risk
| journal = Johns Hopkins Magazine
| date = 2007
| first = Cassandra
| last = Willyard
| id =
| url = http://www.jhu.edu/jhumag/0907web/cutting.html
| accessdate = 2011-04-24
}}
</ref> Her ''research'' has been funded by [[Johns Hopkins]] and the [[Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation]].<ref name="cutting"/> In the waiting room at their clinic, a music video promoting circumcision plays continuously.<ref>
{{cite web
| url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mXFdXJaG8k#t=8m37s
| title = Rakai Project
| accessdate = 2011-04-24
| date = 2010-10-01
| work = JohnsHopkinsSPH
| publisher = YouTube
}}
</ref><ref>
{{cite web
| url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rtEdNl322Q
| title = Rakai male circumcision video by Stephen Mugamba feat Jemima Sanyu
| accessdate = 2011-04-24
| date = 2010-06-06
| work = smugamba
| publisher = YouTube
| quote = Rakai Health Sciences Program funded the production of an MC promotion song which was done by Stephen Mugamba and Jemima Sanyu. This was done under the supervision of one Uganda's best audio producers; Henry Kiwuuwa of Grayce Records.
}}
</ref>
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== Quotes ==
{{Quote box
|title = <small>When Wawer found out she could push circumcision</small>
|quote = You almost feel like crying
|source = <small>--[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BHR9rnoelc#t=01m29s M. Wawer, JohnsHopkinsSPH. (2009, May 29). ''Impact.'']</small>
|align = left
|width = 55%
|quoted = yes}}
{| border=0 align="left" style="width: 55%" cellpadding="5"
|- style="background: #d4d4d4"
| <small>'''NOTE:''' ''When she found a reason to push mass circumcision. How could she find joy in that?''</small>
|}
{{Quote box
|title =
|quote = Once circumcision programs become more widespread, more available, it's very likely that HIV positive men will also seek the procedure. Partly (because) you don't want to be the only guy on the block who hasn't been circumcised.
|source = <small>--[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCRh1Q69Ry4#t=01m15s M. Wawer, MedPageToday. (2008, February 08). ''CROI: Circumcising HIV-Pos Men Doesn't Block Transmission.'']</small>
|align = left
|width = 55%
|quoted = yes}}
{| border=0 align="left" style="width: 55%" cellpadding="5"
|- style="background: #d4d4d4"
| <small>'''NOTE:''' ''This is the goal? To make men feel uncomfortable?''</small>
|}
{{Quote box
|title =
|quote = We found a benefit to the (HIV) positive men of becoming circumcised.
|source = <small>--[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCRh1Q69Ry4#t=03m22s M. Wawer, MedPageToday. (2008, February 08). ''CROI: Circumcising HIV-Pos Men Doesn't Block Transmission.'']</small>
|align = left
|width = 55%
|quoted = yes}}
{| border=0 align="left" style="width: 55%" cellpadding="5"
|- style="background: #d4d4d4"
| <small>'''NOTE:''' ''They are already HIV positive. You'd think this was a joke.''</small>
|}
{{Quote box
|title =
|quote = Where you don’t have complete keratinization of the remaining mucosa, then that could in effect increase the transmission of (the) virus.
|source = <small>--[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCRh1Q69Ry4#t=04m41s M. Wawer, MedPageToday. (2008, February 08). ''CROI: Circumcising HIV-Pos Men Doesn't Block Transmission.'']</small>
|align = left
|width = 55%
|quoted = yes}}
{| border=0 align="left" style="width: 55%" cellpadding="5"
|- style="background: #d4d4d4"
| <small>'''NOTE:''' ''While pro-circ HIV "researchers" are claiming keratinization is a fact, pushers such as [[Brian J. Morris]] and [[Jake H. Waskett]] claim there is no keratinization. The keratinization reduces sensation.''</small>
|}
{{Quote box
|title =
|quote = We are providing male circumcision as a service now to negative men, but also to positive men. Again, because we don't want them to become stigmatized if they refuse the service.
|source = <small>--[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCRh1Q69Ry4#t=05m20s M. Wawer, MedPageToday. (2008, February 08). ''CROI: Circumcising HIV-Pos Men Doesn't Block Transmission.'']</small>
|align = left
|width = 55%
|quoted = yes}}
{| border=0 align="left" style="width: 55%" cellpadding="5"
|- style="background: #d4d4d4"
| <small>'''NOTE:''' ''i.e., she promotes the cutting of anyone for any reason. No logic required.''</small>
|}
{{Quote box
|title =
|quote = It’s amazing, cultures do change once people see there's a real advantage of a certain action (circumcision) on their part.
|source = <small>--[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mXFdXJaG8k#t=08m41s M. Wawer, JohnsHopkinsSPH. (2010, December 01). ''Rakai project.'']</small>
|align = left
|width = 55%
|quoted = yes}}
{| border=0 align="left" style="width: 55%" cellpadding="5"
|- style="background: #d4d4d4"
| <small>'''NOTE:''' ''You heard that right. She want's to make circumcision part of the culture. i.e., the norm.''</small>
|}
<BR CLEAR="all">
=== Contradictory Quotes ===
{{Quote box
|title = <small>Male Circumcision does NOT protect women</small>
|quote = We haven't seen a benefit to women for the procedure.
|source = <small>--[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCRh1Q69Ry4#t=06m23s M. Wawer, MedPageToday. (2008, February 08). ''CROI: Circumcising HIV-Pos Men Doesn't Block Transmission.'']</small>
|align = left
|width = 55%
|quoted = yes}}
{| border=0 align="left" style="width: 55%" cellpadding="5"
|- style="background: #d4d4d4"
| <small>'''NOTE:''' ''In fact, she found that male circumcision increases risk of HIV transmission in women.''</small>
|}
{{Quote box
|title = <small>Male Circumcision DOES protect women</small>
|quote = You asked yourself the question, 'If it reduces the risk of acquisition it presumably reduces the risk of transmission to female partners." (Maria nods in agreement)
|source = <small>--[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCRh1Q69Ry4#t=00m50s Interviewer, MedPageToday. (2008, February 08). ''CROI: Circumcising HIV-Pos Men Doesn't Block Transmission.'']</small>
|align = left
|width = 55%
|quoted = yes}}
{| border=0 align="left" style="width: 55%" cellpadding="5"
|- style="background: #d4d4d4"
| <small>'''NOTE:''' ''Ignoring her own findings when they don't support male circumcision.''</small>
|}
{{Quote box
|title = <small>Male Circumcision does NOT protect women</small>
|quote = Disappointingly, when we looked at the women partners of the (HIV) positive men, who've been circumcised, compared to the partners who had not been circumcised, we actually found a slightly higher rate of transmission from the positive circumcised men than from positive uncircumcised men.
|source = <small>--[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCRh1Q69Ry4#t=03m40s M. Wawer, MedPageToday. (2008, February 08). ''CROI: Circumcising HIV-Pos Men Doesn't Block Transmission.'']</small>
|align = left
|width = 55%
|quoted = yes}}
{| border=0 align="left" style="width: 55%" cellpadding="5"
|- style="background: #d4d4d4"
| <small>'''NOTE:''' ''Interestingly, Maria has said on numerous occasions that circumcision will reduce the rate of transmission to female partners, even though her research doesn't support this. Here she contradicts herself, yet again.''</small>
|}
<BR CLEAR="all">
==References==
<div class='references-small'>
<references/>
</div>
[[Category:People|Wawer, Maria J.]]
[[Category:Circumcision in Africa|Wawer, Maria J.]]
[[Category:Researchers|Wawer, Maria J.]]
[[Category:CircLeaks]]
[[Category:Construction Site]]
[[Category:From IntactWiki]]
{| class="infobox vcard" style="200px; font-size:90%" border="0" cellspacing="4" align="right"
|-
| [[Image:Maria-Wawer.jpg|200px]]
|- style="background: #DCDCDC"
| align="center" | '''Married To:'''
|-
| align="center" | [[Ronald Gray]]
|- style="background: #DCDCDC"
| align="center" | '''Colleagues:'''
|-
| align="center" | [[Ronald Gray]]<br>[[Bertran Auvert]]<br>[[Robert C. Bailey]]<br>[[Thomas Quinn]]
|- style="background: #DCDCDC"
| align="center" | '''Funded By:'''
|-
| align="center" | [[Johns Hopkins]]<br>[[NIH]]
|-
| align="right" | [[Image:Gray and Wawer.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Ronald Gray]] with his wife,<br>and colleague, Maria Wawer.
|}
Maria J. Wawer is a biased pro-circumcision researcher <ref>
{{cite web
| url = http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Maria%20Wawer%20circumcision
| title = Maria Wawer circumcision
| accessdate = 2011-04-24
| work = PubMed
| publisher = NCBI
}}
</ref> looking for justifications to roll-out mass circumcision programs around the world. Wawer is married to another biased pro-circumcision researcher [[Ronald Gray]].<ref name="cutting">
{{cite journal
| title = Cutting the Risk
| journal = Johns Hopkins Magazine
| date = 2007
| first = Cassandra
| last = Willyard
| id =
| url = http://www.jhu.edu/jhumag/0907web/cutting.html
| accessdate = 2011-04-24
}}
</ref> Her ''research'' has been funded by [[Johns Hopkins]] and the [[Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation]].<ref name="cutting"/> In the waiting room at their clinic, a music video promoting circumcision plays continuously.<ref>
{{cite web
| url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mXFdXJaG8k#t=8m37s
| title = Rakai Project
| accessdate = 2011-04-24
| date = 2010-10-01
| work = JohnsHopkinsSPH
| publisher = YouTube
}}
</ref><ref>
{{cite web
| url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rtEdNl322Q
| title = Rakai male circumcision video by Stephen Mugamba feat Jemima Sanyu
| accessdate = 2011-04-24
| date = 2010-06-06
| work = smugamba
| publisher = YouTube
| quote = Rakai Health Sciences Program funded the production of an MC promotion song which was done by Stephen Mugamba and Jemima Sanyu. This was done under the supervision of one Uganda's best audio producers; Henry Kiwuuwa of Grayce Records.
}}
</ref>
{| border=0 align="center" style="width: 25%" cellpadding="0"
== Quotes ==
{{Quote box
|title = <small>When Wawer found out she could push circumcision</small>
|quote = You almost feel like crying
|source = <small>--[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BHR9rnoelc#t=01m29s M. Wawer, JohnsHopkinsSPH. (2009, May 29). ''Impact.'']</small>
|align = left
|width = 55%
|quoted = yes}}
{| border=0 align="left" style="width: 55%" cellpadding="5"
|- style="background: #d4d4d4"
| <small>'''NOTE:''' ''When she found a reason to push mass circumcision. How could she find joy in that?''</small>
|}
{{Quote box
|title =
|quote = Once circumcision programs become more widespread, more available, it's very likely that HIV positive men will also seek the procedure. Partly (because) you don't want to be the only guy on the block who hasn't been circumcised.
|source = <small>--[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCRh1Q69Ry4#t=01m15s M. Wawer, MedPageToday. (2008, February 08). ''CROI: Circumcising HIV-Pos Men Doesn't Block Transmission.'']</small>
|align = left
|width = 55%
|quoted = yes}}
{| border=0 align="left" style="width: 55%" cellpadding="5"
|- style="background: #d4d4d4"
| <small>'''NOTE:''' ''This is the goal? To make men feel uncomfortable?''</small>
|}
{{Quote box
|title =
|quote = We found a benefit to the (HIV) positive men of becoming circumcised.
|source = <small>--[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCRh1Q69Ry4#t=03m22s M. Wawer, MedPageToday. (2008, February 08). ''CROI: Circumcising HIV-Pos Men Doesn't Block Transmission.'']</small>
|align = left
|width = 55%
|quoted = yes}}
{| border=0 align="left" style="width: 55%" cellpadding="5"
|- style="background: #d4d4d4"
| <small>'''NOTE:''' ''They are already HIV positive. You'd think this was a joke.''</small>
|}
{{Quote box
|title =
|quote = Where you don’t have complete keratinization of the remaining mucosa, then that could in effect increase the transmission of (the) virus.
|source = <small>--[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCRh1Q69Ry4#t=04m41s M. Wawer, MedPageToday. (2008, February 08). ''CROI: Circumcising HIV-Pos Men Doesn't Block Transmission.'']</small>
|align = left
|width = 55%
|quoted = yes}}
{| border=0 align="left" style="width: 55%" cellpadding="5"
|- style="background: #d4d4d4"
| <small>'''NOTE:''' ''While pro-circ HIV "researchers" are claiming keratinization is a fact, pushers such as [[Brian J. Morris]] and [[Jake H. Waskett]] claim there is no keratinization. The keratinization reduces sensation.''</small>
|}
{{Quote box
|title =
|quote = We are providing male circumcision as a service now to negative men, but also to positive men. Again, because we don't want them to become stigmatized if they refuse the service.
|source = <small>--[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCRh1Q69Ry4#t=05m20s M. Wawer, MedPageToday. (2008, February 08). ''CROI: Circumcising HIV-Pos Men Doesn't Block Transmission.'']</small>
|align = left
|width = 55%
|quoted = yes}}
{| border=0 align="left" style="width: 55%" cellpadding="5"
|- style="background: #d4d4d4"
| <small>'''NOTE:''' ''i.e., she promotes the cutting of anyone for any reason. No logic required.''</small>
|}
{{Quote box
|title =
|quote = It’s amazing, cultures do change once people see there's a real advantage of a certain action (circumcision) on their part.
|source = <small>--[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mXFdXJaG8k#t=08m41s M. Wawer, JohnsHopkinsSPH. (2010, December 01). ''Rakai project.'']</small>
|align = left
|width = 55%
|quoted = yes}}
{| border=0 align="left" style="width: 55%" cellpadding="5"
|- style="background: #d4d4d4"
| <small>'''NOTE:''' ''You heard that right. She want's to make circumcision part of the culture. i.e., the norm.''</small>
|}
<BR CLEAR="all">
=== Contradictory Quotes ===
{{Quote box
|title = <small>Male Circumcision does NOT protect women</small>
|quote = We haven't seen a benefit to women for the procedure.
|source = <small>--[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCRh1Q69Ry4#t=06m23s M. Wawer, MedPageToday. (2008, February 08). ''CROI: Circumcising HIV-Pos Men Doesn't Block Transmission.'']</small>
|align = left
|width = 55%
|quoted = yes}}
{| border=0 align="left" style="width: 55%" cellpadding="5"
|- style="background: #d4d4d4"
| <small>'''NOTE:''' ''In fact, she found that male circumcision increases risk of HIV transmission in women.''</small>
|}
{{Quote box
|title = <small>Male Circumcision DOES protect women</small>
|quote = You asked yourself the question, 'If it reduces the risk of acquisition it presumably reduces the risk of transmission to female partners." (Maria nods in agreement)
|source = <small>--[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCRh1Q69Ry4#t=00m50s Interviewer, MedPageToday. (2008, February 08). ''CROI: Circumcising HIV-Pos Men Doesn't Block Transmission.'']</small>
|align = left
|width = 55%
|quoted = yes}}
{| border=0 align="left" style="width: 55%" cellpadding="5"
|- style="background: #d4d4d4"
| <small>'''NOTE:''' ''Ignoring her own findings when they don't support male circumcision.''</small>
|}
{{Quote box
|title = <small>Male Circumcision does NOT protect women</small>
|quote = Disappointingly, when we looked at the women partners of the (HIV) positive men, who've been circumcised, compared to the partners who had not been circumcised, we actually found a slightly higher rate of transmission from the positive circumcised men than from positive uncircumcised men.
|source = <small>--[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCRh1Q69Ry4#t=03m40s M. Wawer, MedPageToday. (2008, February 08). ''CROI: Circumcising HIV-Pos Men Doesn't Block Transmission.'']</small>
|align = left
|width = 55%
|quoted = yes}}
{| border=0 align="left" style="width: 55%" cellpadding="5"
|- style="background: #d4d4d4"
| <small>'''NOTE:''' ''Interestingly, Maria has said on numerous occasions that circumcision will reduce the rate of transmission to female partners, even though her research doesn't support this. Here she contradicts herself, yet again.''</small>
|}
<BR CLEAR="all">
==References==
<div class='references-small'>
<references/>
</div>
[[Category:People|Wawer, Maria J.]]
[[Category:Circumcision in Africa|Wawer, Maria J.]]
[[Category:Researchers|Wawer, Maria J.]]
[[Category:CircLeaks]]
[[Category:Construction Site]]
[[Category:From IntactWiki]]