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Despite the known [[Immunological and protective function of the foreskin| immunological functions]] of the [[foreskin]], certain [[:Category:Promoter|promoters of male circumcision]] attempted to link HIV infection to lack of [[circumcision]]. Three randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were carried out in Africa in an attempt to prove their hypothesis.  Green et al. (2008), in a preliminary report, published a long list of methodological issues with the RCTs.<ref name="green2008">{{REFjournal |last=Green |first=Lawrence W |init= |author-link= |last2=McAllister |first2=Ryan S. |init2= |author2-link= |last3=Peterson |first3=Kent W. |init3= |author3-link= |last4=Travis |first4=John W. |init4= |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 |volume=2 |issue=3 |article= |page= |pages=193-9 |url=http://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/full/10.2217/17469600.2.3.193 |archived= |quote= |pubmedID= |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.2217/17469600.2.3.193 |accessdate=2021-11-29}}</ref> [[Gregory J. Boyle|Boyle]] & [[George Hill|Hill]] (2011) however studied their reports and found disabling methodological and statistical errors that invalidated their purported findings.<ref name="boyle-hill2011">{{BoyleGJ HillG 2011}}</ref>