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Professor, Depatrments of Medical Microbiology, Community Health Sciences and Medicine. Stephen Moses has been a circumcision proponent since at least 1994.<ref>Moses S., Plummer FA, Bradley, JE, Ndinya-Achola, JO, Nagelkerke NJ, and Ronald AR. The association between lack of male circumcision and risk for HIV infection: a review of the epidemiological data. Sex Transm Dis 1994;21:201-10.

1.</ref> Moses (along with [[Robert C. Bailey]]) was responsible for one of the three major African circumcision trials (funded by NIAID and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research)<ref>

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  | author=Krieger JN, Bailey RC, Opeya J, ''et al.''

  | title=Adult male circumcision: results of a standardized procedure in Kisumu District, Kenya

  | journal=BJU Int.

  | volume=96

  | issue=7

  | pages=1109–13

}}

</ref> which are being used by the [[World Health Organization]] (under the guide of [[UNAIDS]]) to endorse circumcision as an HIV prevention method.<ref>

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  | url = http://www.who.int/hiv/mediacentre/news68/en/index.html

  | accessdate = 2011-02-23

According to Stephen's bio, his interest is in biological and behavioural risk factors for STI/HIV transmission.<ref name='moses-bio'>

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  | url = http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/medicine/units/medical_microbiology/faculty/StephenMoses.html

  | title = Dr. Stephen Moses

  | accessdate = 2011-02-23

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</ref> Moses has been an advocate of circumcision since at least 1994.<ref>Moses S., Plummer FA, Bradley, JE, Ndinya-Achola, JO, Nagelkerke NJ, and Ronald AR. The association between lack of male circumcision and risk for HIV infection: a review of the epidemiological data. Sex Transm Dis 1994;21:201-10.</ref>

Of the three RCTs being used by the [[WHO]] to endorse circumcision as HIV prevention, Stephen Moses and [[Robert C. Bailey]] headed the RCT that was carried out in Kenya.<ref>Bailey RC, Moses S, Parker CB, et al. Male circumcision for HIV prevention in young men in Kisumu, Kenya: a randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2007;369:643-56. [http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(07)60312-2/abstract Abstract]</ref> All three trials were funded by the American [[National Institutes of Health]].<ref name='DOC 2008'>

{{cite web

  | url = http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org

  | title = The Use of Male Circumcision to Prevent HIV Infection

  | accessdate = 2011-03-05

  | date = 2008

  | publisher = Doctors Opposing Circumcision

  | archiveurl = http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/info/HIVStatement.html

  | archivedate = 2011-03-05

  | quote = ...funding from the United States National Institutes of Health to conduct randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in Africa.

*A randomized, controlled trial of male circumcision to reduce HIV incidence in Kisumu , Kenya.<ref name='moses-bio' /> <p></p><small>[[National Institutes of Health]].</small><p></p>

*Scaling up HIV prevention in Karnataka and southern Maharashtra , Phase II.<ref name='moses-bio' /> <p></p><small>[[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]].</small><p></p>

*Monitoring and evaluation of the Avahan project in India.<ref name='moses-bio' /> <p></p><small>[[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]].</small><p></p>

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}}</ref> <p></p><small>Smith JS, Hudgens MG, '''[[Robert C. Bailey|Bailey RC]]''', Agot K, Ndinya-Achola JO, Moses S, et al. Int J Cancer 2010; 126: 572-7.</small>

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