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In a February 2009 report produced by '''USAID''', a U.S. government agency, researchers found that circumcised men were more likely to have [[HIV]] in 10 of 18 (African) countries with data available.<ref name='CR22'>{{REFnews
In a February 2009 report produced by '''USAID''', a U.S. government agency, researchers found that [[circumcised]] men were more likely to have [[HIV]] in 10 of 18 (African) countries with data available.<ref name='CR22'>{{REFnews
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  |quote=Progress Report on Kenya's Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Programme
  |quote=Progress Report on Kenya's Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Programme
  |accessdate=2011-03-24
  |accessdate=2011-03-24
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==Closure of the USAID agency==
[[Elon Musk]], the world’s richest man charged with overhauling the federal government, said President Donald Trump had signed off on shutting the agency down.<ref>{{REFnews
|title=Elon Musk said Donald Trump agreed USAID needs to be ‘shut down’
|url=https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/politics/usaid-officials-leave-musk-doge/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc
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|quote=Musk said USAID is “beyond repair,” among other attacks he made against the agency created by Congress as an independent body.
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== Circumcision Scale-Up ==
Certain limited activies of United States Agency for International Development are to be continued by the Department of State.<ref>{{REFnews
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USAID has studied the "scale-up" of circumcision in Africa and shows support for circumcision in numerous places on its website.<ref name='usaid-circ-hiv-factsheet'>{{REFweb
<b>The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was dissolved on 28 March 2025.</b><ref>{{REFnews
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  |title=State Department formally shutters USAID after Trump court victory
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  |url=https://nypost.com/2025/03/28/us-news/state-department-shutters-usaid-after-trump-court-victory/
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  |last=Christenson
  |title=Research: Male Circumcision and HIV Prevention
  |first=Josh
  |url=http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/aids/TechAreas/research/mcfactsheet.html
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  |publisher=New York Post
|accessdate=2011-03-24
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  |quote=“Foreign assistance done right can advance our national interests, protect our borders, and strengthen our partnerships with key allies. Unfortunately, USAID strayed from its original mission long ago. As a result, the gains were too few and the costs were too high,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement.
|title=Male Circumcision
|url=http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/aids/TechAreas/prevention/malecircumcision.html
|publisher=USAID
|accessdate=2011-03-24
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  |url=http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNACS892.pdf
|title=Program and Policy Implications for HIV Prevention and Reproductive Health
  |date=2003-05
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|quote=Male Circumcision: Current Epidemiological and Field Evidence
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|title=Fighting HIV with Circumcision
|url=http://blog.usaid.gov/2010/12/fighting-hiv-with-circumcision/
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|accessdate=2011-03-24
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== Circumcision program termination ==
[[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/
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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, [[Complication| complications]], injuries, and other abuses.


== Accelerated Saturation Initiative ==
== Accelerated Saturation Initiative ==
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}}</ref> USAID funded a VMMC based circumcision campaign propaganda video to air on television in South Africa.<ref>{{REFweb
}}</ref> USAID funded a [[VMMC]] based circumcision campaign propaganda video to air on television in [[South Africa]].<ref>{{REFweb
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== C-Change ==
== C-Change ==


A USAID-funded organization called "[[C-Change]]" in Kenya is supporting "Male Circumcision Communication Toolkits" with the stated goal of "Creating demand for VMMC (circumcision)" and "facilitating a scale-up of materials" and capacity to perform more circumcisions from the government of Kenya. One of the ways C-Change is creating demand is by spreading information stating that "VMMC" prevents STI's.<ref>{{REFweb
A USAID-funded organization called "[[C-Change]]" in Kenya is supporting "Male Circumcision Communication Toolkits" with the stated goal of "Creating demand for [[VMMC]] ([[adult circumcision]])" and "facilitating a scale-up of materials" and capacity to perform more circumcisions from the government of Kenya. One of the ways C-Change is creating demand is by spreading information stating that "VMMC" prevents STI's.<ref>{{REFweb
  |quote=...[Male Circumcision] reduces risk for men...
  |quote=...[Male Circumcision] reduces risk for men...
  |url=http://c-changeprogram.org/where-we-work/kenya
  |url=http://c-changeprogram.org/where-we-work/kenya
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