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==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 | |||
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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 == | == Media Funding & Objectivity == | ||
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|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. | |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. | 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">{{ | }}</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">{{DeWitte etal 2007}}</ref> | ||
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==Control of the World Health Organization== | ==Control of the World Health Organization== | ||
Robert 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="kennedy2021">{{REFbook | Robert 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="kennedy2021">{{REFbook | ||
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|title=The Real Anthony Fauci | |title=The Real Anthony Fauci | ||
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| location=New York | | location=New York | ||
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== Unusual | == Unusual medicine == | ||
Holy Water Healing.<ref name='holy-water-healing'>{{REFweb | Holy Water Healing.<ref name='holy-water-healing'>{{REFweb | ||
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== Population-based studies == | |||
{{Population-based studies}} | |||
{{SEEALSO}} | {{SEEALSO}} | ||
* [[Bill Gates]] | * [[Bill Gates]] | ||
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{{LINKS}} | {{LINKS}} | ||
* {{URLwebsite|https://www.gatesfoundation.org/|2022-01-02}} | |||
* {{REFweb | * {{REFweb | ||
|url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/for-professionals/alleged-medical-benefits/hivaids/ | |url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/for-professionals/alleged-medical-benefits/hivaids/ | ||
|title=HIV/AIDS | |title=HIV/AIDS | ||
|publisher=Doctors Opposing Circumcision | |publisher=[[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)]] | ||
|date=2020 | |date=2020 | ||
|accessdate=2020-07-16 | |accessdate=2020-07-16 | ||