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The Bill | The '''Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation''' actively promote male circumcision as "''[[HIV]] prevention''",<ref name='circ-search'>{{REFweb | ||
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| title=Search Results: Circumcision | |title=Search Results: Circumcision | ||
| url= | |url=https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-center/press-releases/2009/06/unprecedented-scaleup-of-voluntary-male-circumcision-begins-in-swaziland-zambia | ||
| accessdate= | |accessdate=2021-12-28 | ||
}}</ref> traveling to Africa to promote it.<ref name='circ-africa-search'>{{REFweb | }}</ref> traveling to Africa to promote it.<ref name='circ-africa-search'>{{REFweb | ||
| last=Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | |last=Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | ||
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| title=Search Results: Circumcision Africa | |title=Search Results: Circumcision Africa | ||
| url=http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/Search.aspx?term=Circumcision%20Africa | |url=http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/Search.aspx?term=Circumcision%20Africa | ||
| accessdate=2011-03-24 | |accessdate=2011-03-24 | ||
}}</ref> [[Bill Gates]] was convinced to promote circumcision by [[Bertran Auvert]].<ref name='gates-saving-the-world'>{{REFweb | }}</ref> [[Bill Gates]] was convinced to promote circumcision by [[Bertran Auvert]].<ref name='gates-saving-the-world'>{{REFweb | ||
| quote=How do you address global hunger, epidemics, and poverty? According to Bill Gates, it takes R&D, software, and plenty of money. | |quote=How do you address global hunger, epidemics, and poverty? According to Bill Gates, it takes R&D, software, and plenty of money. | ||
| last=Lyons | |last=Lyons | ||
| first=Daniel | |first=Daniel | ||
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| title=Saving The World 2.0 | |title=Saving The World 2.0 | ||
| url=http://www.newsweek.com/2010/01/24/saving-the-world-2-0.html | |url=http://www.newsweek.com/2010/01/24/saving-the-world-2-0.html | ||
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}}</ref> | }}</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/ | |||
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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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According to this report, "some grants have indeed spelled out coverage topics, including male circumcision to reduce transmission of AIDS, and clinical trials — the latter of which are crucial for Gates-supported vaccines and drugs being tested in the developing world." | According to this report, "some grants have indeed spelled out coverage topics, including male circumcision to reduce transmission of [[AIDS]], and clinical trials — the latter of which are crucial for Gates-supported vaccines and drugs being tested in the developing world." | ||
This seems to apply particularly to some of the Foundation flag programs, such as the Voluntary Male Circumcision initiatives for Africa, where according to a journalist, "as a government policy, it appears circumcision is reluctantly promoted by some MPs because other health-related and donor-funded initiatives are tied to this programme."<ref>{{REFnews | This seems to apply particularly to some of the Foundation flag programs, such as the Voluntary Male Circumcision initiatives for Africa, where according to a journalist, "as a government policy, it appears circumcision is reluctantly promoted by some MPs because other health-related and donor-funded initiatives are tied to this programme."<ref>{{REFnews | ||
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=== The case of the disappearing articles === | === The case of the disappearing articles === | ||
An article "Circumcision does not affect HIV in U.S. men" disappeared from MSN<ref>{{REFnews | An article "Circumcision does not affect [[HIV]] in U.S. men" disappeared from MSN<ref>{{REFnews | ||
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|date=2009-12-04 | |date=2009-12-04 | ||
|publisher=MSNBC | |publisher=MSNBC | ||
|quote=Black and Latino men were just as likely to become infected with the AIDS virus whether they were circumcised or not, Greg Millett of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found. | |quote=Black and Latino men were just as likely to become infected with the [[AIDS]] virus whether they were circumcised or not, Greg Millett of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found. | ||
"We also found no protective benefit for a subset of black MSM (men who have sex with men) who also had recent sex with female partners," Millett told reporters in a telephone briefing. | "We also found no protective benefit for a subset of black MSM (men who have sex with men) who also had recent sex with female partners," Millett told reporters in a telephone briefing. | ||
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}}</ref> | }}</ref> | ||
Another article titled "Scientists discover natural barrier to HIV" referring to the Langerhans cells of the foreskin, also disappeared from MSN:<ref>{{REFweb | Another article titled "Scientists discover natural barrier to [[HIV]]" referring to the Langerhans cells of the foreskin, also disappeared from MSN:<ref>{{REFweb | ||
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| title=Scientists discover natural barrier to HIV | |title=Scientists discover natural barrier to HIV | ||
| url=http://healthyliving.msn.com/?cp-documentid=100157237#scpti2 | |url=http://healthyliving.msn.com/?cp-documentid=100157237#scpti2 | ||
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}}</ref> Screenshot <ref>[http://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/File:Langerin.pdf Archive (2012-10-02)]</ref> | }}</ref> Screenshot <ref>[http://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/File:Langerin.pdf Archive (2012-10-02)]</ref> | ||
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|date=2007-03-05 | |date=2007-03-05 | ||
|publisher=Washington Post | |publisher=Washington Post | ||
|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. | ||
|accessdate=2012-10-02 | |accessdate=2012-10-02 | ||
}}</REF> | }}</REF> | ||
These articles and the core study are specially intriguing because traditionally it was thought that the [http://intactipedia.org/index.php?title=Langerhans_cells Langerhans cells] of the [http://intactipedia.org/index.php?title=Foreskin Prepuce (foreskin)] constituted an entry point for HIV<ref name="Kawamura-2005">{{REFjournal | These articles and the core study are specially intriguing because traditionally it was thought that the [http://intactipedia.org/index.php?title=Langerhans_cells Langerhans cells] of the [http://intactipedia.org/index.php?title=Foreskin Prepuce (foreskin)] constituted an entry point for [[HIV]]<ref name="Kawamura-2005">{{REFjournal | ||
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|last3=Blauvelt | |last3=Blauvelt | ||
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|last4=Shimada | |last4=Shimada | ||
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|date=2005 | |date=2005-12 | ||
|title=The role of Langerhans cells in the sexual transmission of HIV | |title=The role of Langerhans cells in the sexual transmission of HIV | ||
|journal=J Dermatol Sci | |journal=J Dermatol Sci | ||
|volume=40 | |volume=40 | ||
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|pubmedID=16226431 | |pubmedID=16226431 | ||
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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> | ||
==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 | |||
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|title=The Real Anthony Fauci | |||
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}}</ref> | |ISBN=978-I51076680-8 | ||
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== Quotes == | == Quotes == | ||
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|Author=[[Bill Gates]] | |Author=[[Bill Gates]] | ||
|Source=Reuters | |Source=Reuters | ||
|ref=<ref>[http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/07/19/us-aids-efficiency-idUSTRE66I2MZ20100719 Kelland, K. (2010, July 19). Bill Clinton & Bill Gates want value for money in AIDS fight. ''Reuters.'']</ref> | |ref=<ref>[http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/07/19/us-aids-efficiency-idUSTRE66I2MZ20100719 Kelland, K. (2010, July 19). Bill Clinton & Bill Gates want value for money in [[AIDS]] fight. ''Reuters.'']</ref> | ||
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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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|title=Holy Water Healing | |title=Holy Water Healing | ||
|url=http://www.gatesfoundation.org/videos/Pages/default.aspx#video=/livingproofproject/Pages/holy-water-healing.aspx&pager=0&filter=&autostart=true | |url=http://www.gatesfoundation.org/videos/Pages/default.aspx#video=/livingproofproject/Pages/holy-water-healing.aspx&pager=0&filter=&autostart=true | ||
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|title=Crying Baby Symphony | |title=Crying Baby Symphony | ||
|url=http://www.gatesfoundation.org/videos/Pages/default.aspx#video=/vaccines/Pages/crying-baby-symphony.aspx&pager=0&filter=&autostart=true | |url=http://www.gatesfoundation.org/videos/Pages/default.aspx#video=/vaccines/Pages/crying-baby-symphony.aspx&pager=0&filter=&autostart=true | ||
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[[File:CryingBabies.jpg |312px]] | [[File:CryingBabies.jpg |312px]] | ||
==Criticism== | |||
The [[VMMC Experience Project]] has published a massive, illustrated 153-page report on VMMC in Africa for the United Nations.<ref name="fish2019">{{REFdocument | |||
|title=Circumcision Campaigns: African experience and human rights: The U.N. Report | |||
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|url=https://www.vmmcproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/VMMC-UN-Report.pdf | |||
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|date=2019-05-07 | |||
|accessdate=2021-05-15 | |||
}}</ref> | |||
== Population-based studies == | |||
{{Population-based studies}} | |||
{{SEEALSO}} | |||
* [[Bill Gates]] | |||
* [[Circumcision and HIV]] | |||
* [[VMMC Experience Project]] | |||
{{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 | |||
}} | |||
{{REF}} | {{REF}} | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:Organization]] | ||
[[Category:Circumcision in Africa]] | [[Category:Circumcision in Africa]] | ||
[[Category:From CircLeaks]] | [[Category:From CircLeaks]] | ||
[[Category:From IntactWiki]] | [[Category:From IntactWiki]] | ||
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