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'''Annie Lennox''' is a Scottish singer who has lent her support to the circumcision / [[HIV]] message since 2008. In 2010 she appeared as a collaborator at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna. In 2011 2012 she appeared at the [[Hope Rising]] concert alongside [[Sarah McLachlan]] and [[Angélique Kidjo]]. The [[Hope Rising]] concerts were held in support of the [[Stephen Lewis Foundation]],<ref>{{REFnews

September 2021 saw In his first report, Garenne presented the publication findings from a study in Lesotho, the enclave in South Africa. He reported:<blockquote>In couple studies, the effect of two huge population studies circumcision and VMMC on HIV was not significant, with similar transmission from female to male and male to female. The study questions the relationship amount of [[circumcision]] effort and money spent on VMMC in Lesotho.<ref name="garenne2022A">{{REFjournal |last=Garenne |first=Michel |init=M |author-link=Michel Garenne |title=Changing relationships between HIV infectionprevalence 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=2022-11-02}}</ref> </blockquote>

# Mayan et al. In his second report, Garenne (20212022) carried out a massive empirical study of the male population of the province of Ontariopresented information from six Sub-Saharan African nations (Eswatini, Lesotho, [[Canada]] (569Malawi,950 males)Namibia, of whom 203Zambia,588 (35Zimbabwe).7%) were He reported:<blockquote> "Results matched earlier observations made in South Africa that [[circumcised]] between 1991 and 2017. The study concluded that circumcision status is not related to risk [[intact]] men had similar levels of HIV infection."<ref name="mayan2021garenne2022B">{{REFjournal |last=MayanGarenne |first=MadhurMichael

|title=Circumcision Age-incidence and Risk prevalence of HIV Among Males From Ontario, Canadaamong intact and circumcised men: an analysis of PHIA surveys in Southern Africa |trans-title= |language= |journal=J UrolBiosoc Sci |location= |date=20212022-0710-0226 |season= |volume= |issue= |article= |page= |pages=1-13 |url=https://www.auajournalscambridge.org/doicore/pdfjournals/10.1097journal-of-biosocial-science/article/abs/ageincidence-and-prevalence-of-hiv-among-intact-and-circumcised-men-an-analysis-of-phia-surveys-in-southern-africa/JU.0000000000002234CAA7E7BD5A9844F41C6B7CC3573B9E50 |archived= |quote=We found that circumcision was not independently associated with the risk of acquiring HIV among men from Ontario, Canada. |pubmedID=3455159336286328 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.10971017/JU.0000000000002234S0021932022000414 |accessdate=20212022-1011-02}}</ref># [[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.<ref name="frisch2021"/blockquote>{{FrischM SimonsenJ 2021SEEALSO}}</ref> No association between lack of circumcision and risk of HIV infection was found by either study.* [[United Kingdom]]