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|quote=In March or April of 2010, the Swazi Cabinet approved the current plan, which the U.S. government agreed to support.
|accessdate=2011-05-06
}}</ref> Since then, U.S. government personnel have worked to align [[PEPFAR]] resources in support of the national plan. The Government of Swaziland asked [[PEPFAR]] to support the national [[Adolescent_and_adult_circumcision| male circumcision]] plan as one of the "five pillars" of the Swaziland -— [[United States]] [[PEPFAR ]] Partnership Framework on [[HIV]]/[[AIDS]].<ref>{{REFnews
|last=Mazzotta
|first=Meredith
|date=2011-03-04
|publisher=Science Speaks: HIV & TB News
|quote=The Government of Swaziland asked [[PEPFAR ]] to support the national MC plan as one of the five ‘pillars’ of our “Swaziland – United States [[PEPFAR ]] Partnership Framework on [[HIV]]/[[AIDS]].”
|accessdate=2011-05-06
}}</ref>
}}</ref>
Solomon Mndzebele, a caregiver under Red Cross, made a personal plea to the ministry Ministry of health Health to remove the advertizements advertisements because they were making making his job to promote condom use difficult.<ref>{{REFnews
|last=Ndlangamandla
|first=Nelsiwe
|accessdate=2011-05-13
}}</ref> According to Mndzebele, "When you tell people about condoms they would just tell you that they would circumcise and by then they would have conquered [[HIV]] [[AIDS]]."
==Circumcision does not prevent HIV infection==
=== Population-based studies ===