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|date=
|title=Search Results: Circumcision
|url=httphttps://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pagesideas/Search.aspx?term=media-center/press-releases/2009/06/unprecedented-scaleup-of-voluntary-male-circumcision-begins-in-swaziland-zambia |accessdate=20112021-0312-2428
}}</ref> traveling to Africa to promote it.<ref name='circ-africa-search'>{{REFweb
|last=Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
|first=
|date=2008
|title=Search Results: Circumcision Africa
|url=http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/Search.aspx?term=Circumcision%20Africa
|title=Saving The World 2.0
|url=http://www.newsweek.com/2010/01/24/saving-the-world-2-0.html
|accessdate=20112021-0312-2428
}}</ref>
==Success==
[[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=2025-02-15
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}}</ref> Numerous studies have demonstrated that [[adult circumcision]] is not effective in preventing [[HIV]] [[infection]].
PEPFAR ignominiously ended the provision of non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of boys under age 15 in November 2019 due to significant, complications, injuries, and other abuses.
== Media Funding & Objectivity ==
|quote=Researchers have discovered that cells in the mucosal lining of human genitalia produce a protein that "eats up" invading HIV -- possibly keeping the spread of the [[AIDS]] more contained than it might otherwise be.
Even more important, enhancing the activity of this protein, called ''Langerin'', could be a potent new way to curtail the transmission of the virus that causes [[AIDS]], the Dutch scientists added.
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}}</ref>, and this concept is one of the reasons behind the hypothesis that [http://intactipedia.org/index.php?title=Circumcision_and_HIV circumcision may reduce the risk of a male becoming infected with HIV from a female partner]. This Dutch study contradicts this idea, by stating that the Langerhans cells block [[HIV]].<ref name="de Witte-2007">{{REFjournalDeWitte etal 2007}}</ref> |last=de Witte |init=L |last2=Nabatov |init2Control of the World Health Organization=A |last3=Pion |init3=M |last4Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. reports that huge contributions from the Gates Foundation to the [[WHO]] gives [[Bill Gates]] "leverage and control over WHO's $5.6 budget and over international health policy".<ref name=Fluitsma"kennedy2021">{{REFbook |init4last=DKennedy, Jr. |last5first=de JongRobert F. |init5init=MA |last6year=de Gruijl |init6=T |last7=Piguet |init7=V |last8=van Kooyk |init8=Y |last9=Geijtenbeek |init9=TB |date=2007-032021 |title=Langerin is a natural barrier to HIV-1 transmission by Langerhans cells. |journal=Nat Med |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=367-71The Real Anthony Fauci
|url=
|pubmedIDpage=17334373301| location=New York |DOIpublisher=10.1038/nm1541Skyhorse Publishing |ISBN=978-I51076680-8 |accessdate=2021-12-28 }}</ref>.
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== Unusual Medicine medicine ==
Holy Water Healing.<ref name='holy-water-healing'>{{REFweb
|accessdate=2021-05-15
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== Population-based studies =={{Population-based studies}}
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Bill Gates]]
{{LINKS}}
* {{URLwebsite|https://www.gatesfoundation.org/|2022-01-02}}
* {{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