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The WHO is lead by a Director-General. The present Director-General in [[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus]] who took office in April | The WHO is lead by a Director-General. The present Director-General in [[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus]] who took office in April 2017. | ||
==Funding== | |||
The WHO receives contributions from many sources, however the [[Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation]] is the largest contributor. 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> Bill Gates' promotion of male circumcision is well-known, so this may explain why the WHO clings to an outmoded and discredited position on male circumcision. | |||
==Advocacy of male circumcision== | |||
In July 2012, the '''WHO''' (World Health Organization) published a study<ref>[http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/malecircumcision/en/ Male circumcision for HIV prevention]</ref> (just in time for the just then started [[Circumcision Debate]] in Germany) which recommended to perform [[circumcision]]s as a prevention against [[HIV]]/[[AIDS]]. This study supposedly promises a 60% protection against [[AIDS]]. | In July 2012, the '''WHO''' (World Health Organization) published a study<ref>[http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/malecircumcision/en/ Male circumcision for HIV prevention]</ref> (just in time for the just then started [[Circumcision Debate]] in Germany) which recommended to perform [[circumcision]]s as a prevention against [[HIV]]/[[AIDS]]. This study supposedly promises a 60% protection against [[AIDS]]. | ||
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''The following sections are from [[IntactWiki]]:'' | ''The following sections are from [[IntactWiki]]:'' | ||
The World Health Organization endorses male circumcision as an [[HIV]] prevention method based on the three RCTs in Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda.<ref>{{REFweb | The World Health Organization (2011) endorses male circumcision as an [[HIV]] prevention method based on the three RCTs in Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda.<ref>{{REFweb | ||
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== Chief expert on infant circumcision == | == Chief expert on infant circumcision == | ||
[[David R. Tomlinson]] is the inventor of the [[AccuCirc]] device for infant circumcision.<ref>{{REFnews | [[David R. Tomlinson]] (2008) is the inventor of the [[AccuCirc]] device for infant circumcision.<ref>{{REFnews | ||
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|quote=...an invention: a circumcision tool to help prevent HIV that has recently been cleared by the FDA. | |quote=...an invention: a circumcision tool to help prevent HIV that has recently been cleared by the FDA. | ||
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}}</ref> He also wrote a manual on infant circumcision for the World Health Organization.<ref>{{REFnews | }}</ref> He also wrote a manual on infant circumcision (2011) for the World Health Organization.<ref>{{REFnews | ||
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The [[VMMC Experience Project]] has published a massive, illustrated, 153-page report on VMMC in Africa for the United Nations.<ref name="fish2019">{{REFdocument | The [[VMMC Experience Project]] (2019) 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 | |title=Circumcision Campaigns: African experience and human rights: The U.N. Report | ||
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