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{{Construction Site}}[[File:Anthony Fauci 2020.jpg|thumb|Fauci in April 2020]]'''Anthony Fauci''', M.D.{{MD}}, (b. {{LifeData|1940-12-24 December 1940}}) is the American physician-scientist and immunologist serving as the director of the [https://www.niaid.nih.gov/ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases] (NIAID) since 1984.<ref name="niaid">{{REFweb

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Fauci's name is much in the news today in regard to the COVID-19 pandemic, but this article is narrowly focused on his role as a friend of [[Bill Gates]] and a promoter of [[circumcision]].

===Funder of Africa RCT "research".===

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}}</ref> from which he allocated funds for two randomized controlled trials to be carried out in Africa. The trials supposedly were to determine if male circumcision was an effective at preventing female to male HIV infection, but were so conducted as to prove what the researchers wanted to prove — that male circumcision prevented [[HIV ]] infection. Fauci's NIAID approved of a grant (UO1 AI11171-01-02) from the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), Division of AIDS, National Institutes of Health (NIH), and in part by the Division of Intramural Research, NIAID, NIH resulted inthree [[HIV trials in Africa]]:

# {{RCT Auvert et al 2005}}# {{RCT 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(9562): 643–656.}}# {{RCT Gray et al 2007}}

These RCTs and the notion that male circumcision somehow can prevent HIV infection has received massive critical comment:<ref name="dowset2997">{{REFjournal |last=Dowsett |first= |init=GW |author-link= |last2=Couch |first2= |init2=M |author2-link= |etal=no |title=Male circumcision and HIV prevention: is there really enough of the right kind of evidence? |trans-title= |language= |journal=Reprod Health Matters |location= |date=2007-05 |volume=15 |issue=29 |article= |page= |pages=33-44 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/HIV/dowsett2007/ |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=17512372 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1016/S0968-8080(07)29302-4 |accessdate=2021-12-31}}</ref><ref name="green2008">{{REFjournal |last=Green |first= |init=LW |author-link= |last2=McAlister |first2= |init2=RG |author2-link= |last3=Peterson |first3= |init3=KW |author3-link= |last4=Travis |first4= |init4=JW |author4-link= |etal=no |title=Male circumcision is not the HIV ‘vaccine’ we have been waiting for! |trans-title= |language= |journal=Future HIV Therapy |location= |date=2008-05-06 |volume=2 |issue=3 |article= |page= |pages=193-9 |url=https:&nbsp; //www.futuremedicine.com/doi/full/10.2217/17469600.2.3.193 |archived= |quote= |pubmedID= |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.2217/17469600.2. 3.193 |accessdate=2021-12-31}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal |last=Sidler |first= Gray RH, Kigozi G, Serwadda |init=D, et al |author-link= |last2=Smith |first2= |init2=J |author2-link= |last3=Rode |first3= |init3=H |author3-link= |etal=no |title=Neonatal circumcision does not reduce HIV/AIDS infection rates |trans-title= |language= |journal=S Afr Med J |location= |date=2008-10 |volume=98 |issue=10 |article= |page= |pages=762-6 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/HIV/sidler2008/ |archived= |quote= |pubmedID= |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=2021-12-31}}</ref><ref name="myers2008">{{REFjournal |last=Myers |first= |init=A |author-link= |last2=Myers |first2= |init2=J |author2-link= |etal=no |title=Rolling out male circumcision as a mass HIV/AIDS intervention seems neither justified nor practicable. |trans-title= |language= |journal=S Afr Med J |location= |date=2008-10 |volume=98 |issue=10 |article= |page= |pages=781-2 |url=http://www.cirp. org/library/disease/HIV/myers2008/ |archived= |quote= |pubmedID= |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=}}</ref><ref name="">{{REFjournal |last=Connolly |first= |init=C |author-link= |last2=Leickness |first2= |init2=LC |author2-link= |last3= Shanmugam |first3= |init3=R |author3-link= |last4=Nqeketo |first4= |init4=A |author4-link= |last5= |etal=no |title=Male circumcision for and its relationship to HIV prevention infection in men South Africa: Results of a national survey in Rakai, Uganda2002 |trans-title= |language= |journal=S Afr Med J |location= |date=2008-12 |volume=98 |issue=10 |article= |page= |pages=789-94 |url=http: A randomised trial//www.cirp.org/library/disease/HIV/connolly2008/ |archived= |quote= |pubmedID= |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=2021-12-31}}</ref> Most U. ''Lancet''S. 2007; 369(9562): 657men and about 70% of sub-666Saharan African men are circumcised—higher percentages than in most other regions or countries with lower prevalence of [[HIV]].<ref name="Green etal 2010">{{REFjournal |last=Green |init=LW |last2=TravisThese RCTs |init2=JW |last3=McAllister |init3=RG |author3-link=Ryan McAllister |last4=Peterson |init4=KW |last5=Vardanyan |init5=AN |last6=Craig |init6=A |title=Male circumcision and the notion that male circumcision somehow can prevent HIV infection has received massive critical commentprevention insufficient evidence and neglected external validity |url=https://www.arclaw.org/wp-content/uploads/Green-Circ-HIV-Prev-Insufficient-AmJPrevMed-2010.pdf |format=PDF |journal=Am J Prev Med |publisher=Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, {{UNI|University of California|UCSF}} at San Francisco, USA |date=2010-11 |volume=39 |issue=5 |pages=479-82 |pubmedID=20965388 |accessdate=2021-12-31}}</ref><ref name="boyle-hill2011">{{BoyleGJ HillG 2011}}</ref>

Fauci designed and recommended approval of the highly expensive and ineffective [[PEPFAR]] program to circumcise sub-Saharan Africa to President George W. Bush in 2008.<ref>Wikipedia q. v. Anthony Fauci.</ref> <ref><{{REFweb

|title=Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. |publisher=NIAID |date=2021-12-17 |accessdate=2021-12-30}}</ref> PEPFAR claims to have performed 27.7 million circumcisions on men and boys,<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://www.state.gov/pepfar-global-results-factsheet/ |title=Latest Global Results |last= |first= |date=2021-12 |accessdate=2021-12-31}}</ref> all of which we now know to have been ineffective at preventing HIV infection.<ref name="garenne-matthews2019">{{REFjournal |last=Garenne |init=M |author-link=Michel Garenne |last2=Matthews |init2=A |author2-link= |etal=no |title=Voluntary medical male circumcision and HIV in Zambia: expectations and observations |journal=J Biosoc Sci |date=2019-10-14 |volume=Epub ahead of print |pages=1-13 |pubmedID=31608845 |DOI=10.1017/S0021932019000634 |accessdate=2021-12-31}}</ref><ref name="mayan2021">{{REFjournal |last=Mayan |first=Madhur |init= |author-link= |last2=Hamilton |first2=Robert J. |init2= |author2-link= |last3=Juurlink |first3=David N. |init3= |author3-link= |last4=Austin |first4=Peter C. |init4= |author4-link= |last5=Jarvi |first5=Keith A. |init5= |author5-link= |etal=no |title=Circumcision and Risk of HIV Among Males From Ontario, Canada |trans-title= |language= |journal=J Urol |location= |date=2021-09-23 |volume= |issue= |article= |page= |pages= |url=https://www.auajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1097/JU.0000000000002234 |archived= |quote=We found that circumcision was not independently associated with the risk of acquiring HIV among men from Ontario, Canada. |pubmedID=34551593 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1097/JU.0000000000002234 |accessdate=2021-12-31}}</ref><ref name="frisch2021">{{FrischM SimonsenJ 2021}}</ref> [[Circumcision]] of boys who had not reached age 15 had to be stopped in November 2019 because of the high rate of injury.<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/pepfar-scandal-finally-to-end-botched-male-circumcision-campaign-in-africa.3462477/ |title=PEPFAR SCANDAL: Finally To End Botched Male Circumcision Campaign In Africa

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[[Max Fish |Fish]] et al. (2019) criticized [[PEPFAR ]] for its racist nature.<ref name="fish2019">{{REFdocument

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