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In 2005 and 2007, three randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were carried out in Africa in an attempt to prove a hypothesis of certain [[circumcision advocate|circumcision promoters]] despite the known [[Immunological and protective function of the foreskin| immunological functions]] of the [[foreskin]], to link [[HIV ]] infection to lack of [[circumcision]].

These trials arewere carried out in* [[South Africa]]:* : {{RCT Auvert et al 2005}}* Kenya:: {{RCT Bailey et al 2007}}* Uganda:: {{RCT Gray et al 2007}} The 2007 RCTs in Kenya and Uganda were funded by NIAID director [[Anthony Fauci]]. [[PEPFAR]] (2025) has scrapped its ineffective and harmful "voluntary male medical circumcision" (VMMC) program after 15 years and at least 27,000,000 harmful and useless [[foreskin]] amputations.<ref name="gwarisa2025">{{REFnews |title=New PEPFAR Waiver Scraps Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Program |url=https://healthtimes.co.zw/2025/02/07/new-pepfar-waiver-scraps-voluntary-medical-male-circumcision-program/ |last=Gwarisa |first=Michael |init= |author-link= |publisher=Healthtimes |website= |date=2025-02-07 |accessdate=2025-02-16 |format= |quote=}}</ref> The [[United States]] government will no longer pay for harmful circumcisions in Africa. == 60% HIV protection myth ==These RCTs are the cause of the false and long since disproved claim that [[circumcision]] would offer a 60% better protection against HIV than uncircumcised people have.