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UNAIDS is the Joint United Nations Programme on [[HIV]]/[[AIDS ]] that works towards achieving universal access to [[HIV ]] prevention, treatment, care and support.<ref>{{REFweb | last= | first= | yeardate= | title=UNAIDS | url=http://www.unaids.org/en/aboutunaids/ | accessdate=2011-03-29
}}</ref> UNAIDS established in 1994 by a resolution of the UN Economic and Social Council and launched in January 1996.<ref>{{REFnews
| last= | first= | coauthors= | url=http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/featurestories/2008/november/20081103tfty/ | title=UNAIDS: The First 10 Years | date=2008-11-03 | publisher=UNAIDS | quote= | accessdate=2011-08-30
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== Stephen Lewis - Former head of UNAIDS ==
Stephen Henry Lewis, CC, born November ({{LifeData|1937-11-11, 1937}}),<ref>Smith, p.258 ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Lewis more here])</ref> is a Canadian politician,<ref>MacDonald, pp. 151-152 ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Lewis more here])</ref> broadcaster, diplomat and former head of UNAIDS. He is Jewish ([[Religion and Culture|why this is important]]),<ref>{{REFbook | last=Smith | first=Cameron |init=C | year=1989 | title=Unfinished Journey: The Lewis Family | url= | editor= | edition=1 | volume= | chapter= | pagespage=330 | location= | publisher=Summerhill Press | isbn=0-929091-04-3 | note= | accessdate=
}}</ref> and a very outspoken feminist.<ref>{{REFweb
| last=Lewis | first=Stephen | yeardate=2010-02-02 | title=Stephen Lewis Co-Dir, Aids free world | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFkVLJ9Ukts | accessdate=2011-04-01}}</ref> Lewis is a vehement promoter of male circumcision, particularly infant male [[circumcision ]] (as [[HIV ]] prevention policy).<ref>{{REFweb | last=AIDSFreeWorld | first= | yeardate=2010-01-06 | title=Male Circumcision, part 1 | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9kIqB_6KRg | accessdate=2011-04-01
}}</ref> Lewis calls circumcision "inspired preventive technology." Lewis is very close friends with [[Bill Clinton]].<ref>{{REFweb
| last=garymcnutt | first= | yeardate=2006-09-24 | title=Stephen Lewis on Gender Equality | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6bUognn0pA | accessdate=2011-04-01
}}</ref><ref>{{REFweb
| last=clintonfoundationorg | first= | yeardate=2009-10-04 | title=A Special Discussion with President Clinton on World AIDS Day. | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUaGIc4GYLQ | accessdate=2011-04-01}}</ref> Stephen was the leader of the democratic socialist Ontario New Democratic Party for most of the 1970s. In the mid-1980s, he was appointed as Canada's United Nations ambassador. He quit in 1988 and worked at various United Nations agencies during the 1990s. In the 2000s, he served a term as the United Nations' special envoy for [[HIV]]/[[AIDS ]] in Africa, and head of UNAIDS.<ref name='Ryerson 2010-09-14'>{{REFweb | last=Toye | first=Suelan | yeardate=2010-09-14 | title=Stephen Lewis, humanitarian, diplomat and activist, appointed a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University | url=http://www.ryerson.ca/news/media/General_Public/20100914_MR_Stephen%20.html | accessdate=2011-03-30 | publisher = {{UNI|Ryerson University|RyeU}}
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{{Citation
| Text=There was some titter of laughter and gentile applause which resonated throughout the room. So I felt it was the appropriate moment to tell the crowd that I was [[circumcised]]. Which I did. There followed what can only be described as an <span style="background:#d7f5ff">Orgy of Male Bonding</span>. I have never been so embraced and hugged so extravagantly by numbers of people simultaneously as they conveyed to me that they understood the importance of circumcision and recognized that it's withstood the transmission of the virus. | Author=[[Stephen H. Lewis]] | Source= | ref=<ref>[http://fora.tv/2008/07/28/Stephen_Lewis_Disease_and_Climate_Change_in_Africa Fora, TV. (2008). Stephen Lewis: ''disease and climate change in Africa.'']</ref>
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| Text=The most unexpected and successful preventative <span style="background:#d7f5ff">technology</span>, which has been chronicalled chronicaled in the last couple of years, is [[Adult circumcision| male circumcision]]. | Author=[[Stephen H. Lewis]] | Source= | ref=<ref>[http://fora.tv/2008/07/28/Stephen_Lewis_Disease_and_Climate_Change_in_Africa Fora, TV. (2008). Stephen Lewis: ''disease and climate change in Africa.'']</ref>
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==Criticism==
The [[VMMC Experience Project]] has published a massive, illustrated 153-page report on VMMC in Africa for the United Nations.<ref name="fish2019">{{REFdocument
|title=Circumcision Campaigns: African experience and human rights: The U.N. Report
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==Circumcision does not prevent HIV infection==
=== Population-based studies ===
{{Population-based studies}}
===Two African surveys===
The previously reported studies were from developed Western nations. Now we have information from Sub_Saharan Africa.
French scientist [[Michel Garenne]], Ph.D. has published two reports in 2022 comparing the incidence of HIV infection in [[circumcised]] and [[intact]] men.
In his first report, Garenne presented the findings from a study in Lesotho, the enclave in South Africa. He reported:
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In couple studies, the effect of circumcision and VMMC on HIV was not significant, with similar transmission from female to male and male to female. The study questions the amount of effort and money spent on VMMC in Lesotho.<ref name="garenne2022A">{{REFjournal
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|title=Changing relationships between HIV prevalence and circumcision in Lesotho
|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35373731/
|date=2022-04-04
|journal=J Biosoc Sci
|volume=online ahead of print
|pages=1-16
|DOI=10.1017/S0021932022000153
|pubmedID=35373731
|accessdate=2022-11-07
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In his second report, Garenne (2022) presented information from six Sub-Saharan African nations (Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe). He reported:
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"Results matched earlier observations made in South Africa that [[circumcised]] and [[intact]] men had similar levels of HIV infection."<ref name="garenne2022B">{{REFjournal
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{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Canada]]* [[Stephen H. Lewis]] -- — Former head of UNAIDS. {{LINKS}}* {{REFweb |url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/for-professionals/alleged-medical-benefits/hivaids/ |title=HIV/AIDS |publisher=[[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)]] |date=2020 |accessdate=2020-07-16}}
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