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Kilmarx joined the [https://www.peacecorps.gov/ Peace Corp] and served in Africa. He joined the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] in 1995,<ref name="hopkins2017" /> where he served as Chief, Epidemiology Branch, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention.
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Kilmarx joined the [https://www.peacecorps.gov/ Peace Corp] and served in Africa. He joined the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] in 1995,<ref name="hopkins2017" /> where he served as Chief, Epidemiology Branch, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. Kilmarx is substantially responsible for the promotion of non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] by the [[CDC]].<ref>{{REFweb
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}}</ref> There is substantial evidence that Kilmarx holds a high degree of [[bias]] in favor of [[circumcision]].
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Kilmarx is a very active writer. He is listed as as author or co-author of [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Peter+Kilmarx 121 articles] by the PubMed service of the National Library of Medicine. Some are very pro-circumcision.
 
Kilmarx is a very active writer. He is listed as as author or co-author of [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Peter+Kilmarx 121 articles] by the PubMed service of the National Library of Medicine. Some are very pro-circumcision.
  
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Peter H. Kilmarx, M.D.[a 1], is an epidemiologist with the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Kilmarx is an expert on infectious disease research and HIV/AIDS prevention who previously served as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Country Director in Zimbabwe, providing oversight for 30 CDC staff who managed implementation of the U.S. efforts to reduce HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria. He is now deputy director of the Fogarty International Center.[1]

Education

Adult life

Kilmarx joined the Peace Corp and served in Africa. He joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1995,[2] where he served as Chief, Epidemiology Branch, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. Kilmarx is substantially responsible for the promotion of non-therapeutic circumcision by the CDC.[3] There is substantial evidence that Kilmarx holds a high degree of bias in favor of circumcision.

Fish et al. (2020) identify Kilmarx as a major architect of the CDC's erroneous circumcision promotion policy with its racist orientation.[4]

Publications

Kilmarx is a very active writer. He is listed as as author or co-author of 121 articles by the PubMed service of the National Library of Medicine. Some are very pro-circumcision.

  • REFjournal Smith, Dawn K., Smith, Allan, Kilmarx, Peter H., et al. Male circumcision in the United States for the prevention of HIV infection and other adverse health outcomes: report from a CDC consultation. Public Health Rep. January 2010; 125 Suppl 1(Suppl 1): 72-82. PMID. PMC. DOI. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  • REFjournal Clark, Sarah J., Kilmarx, Peter H., Kretsinger, Katrina. Coverage of newborn and adult male circumcision varies among public and private US payers despite health benefits. Health Aff (Millwood).. December 2011; 30(12): 2355-61. PMID. DOI. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  • REFjournal Carbery, Baevin, Zhu, Julia, Gust, Deborah A., Chen, Robert T., Kretsinger, Katrina, Kilmarx, Peter H.. Need for physician education on the benefits and risks of male circumcision in the United States. AIDS Educ Prev.. August 2012; 24(4): 377-87. PMID. DOI. Retrieved 18 September 2022.

Population-based studies

September 2021 saw the publication of two huge population studies on the relationship of circumcision and HIV infection:

  1. Mayan et al. (2021) carried out a massive empirical study of the male population of the province of Ontario, Canada (569,950 males), of whom 203,588 (35.7%) were circumcised between 1991 and 2017. The study concluded that circumcision status is not related to risk of HIV infection.[5]
  2. Morten Frisch & Jacob Simonsen (2021) carried out a large scale empirical population study in Denmark of 855,654 males regarding the alleged value of male circumcision in preventing HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in men. They found that circumcised men have a higher rate of STI and HIV infection overall than intact men.[6]

No association between lack of circumcision and risk of HIV infection was found by either study. There now is credible evidence that the massive, expensive African circumcision programs have not been effective in preventing HIV infection.

See also

Abbreviations

  1. ↑ a b REFweb Doctor of Medicine, Wikipedia. Retrieved 14 June 2021. In the United Kingdom, Ireland and some Commonwealth countries, the abbreviation MD is common.
  2. ↑ REFweb Bachelor of Arts, Wikipedia. Retrieved 13 October 2021. (BA or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium or artium baccalaureus.)

References

  1. ↑ REFweb (15 February 2022). Peter Kilmarx, M.D., Deputy Director, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  2. ↑ a b REFweb Grauer NA (2017). Admiral of Public Health, Hopkins Medicine. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  3. ↑ REFweb Kilmarx, Peter (31 August 2018). Circumcision is a fraud, Twitter. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  4. ↑ REFjournal Fish, Max, Shavisi, Ariane, Gwaambuka, Tatenda, Tangwa, Godfrey B., Ncayiyana, Daniel, Earp, Brian D.. A new Tuskegee? Unethical human experimentation and Western neocolonialism in the mass circumcision of African men.. Dev World Bioeth. December 2021; 21(4): 211-26. PMID. DOI. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
  5. ↑ REFjournal Mayan M, Hamilton RJ, Juurlink DN, Austin PC, Jarvi KA. Circumcision and Risk of HIV Among Males From Ontario, Canada. J Urol. 23 September 2021; PMID. DOI. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
    Quote: We found that circumcision was not independently associated with the risk of acquiring HIV among men from Ontario, Canada.
  6. ↑ REFjournal Frisch M, Simonsen J. Non-therapeutic male circumcision in infancy or childhood and risk of human immunodeficiency virus and other sexually transmitted infections: national cohort study in Denmark. Eur J Epidemiol. 26 September 2021; 37: 251–9. PMID. DOI. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
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