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Ronald Gray '''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is a North American circumcision proponent and biased researcher looking for justifications to roll-out mass [[circumcision ]] programs around the world. He headed one of the three RCTs {{#tip-text:RCT|Randomized controlled trial}}s being used by the [[WHO]] to endorse circumcision as [[HIV ]] prevention.<ref>{{REFweb | last=WHO (World Health Organization) |title=Information Package on Male Circumcision and HIV Prevention (Insert 1) |url=https://www.who.int/hiv/pub/malecircumcision/infopack_en_1.pdf |format=PDF |date=2007-03-26 |accessdate=2020-03-26}}</ref><ref>{{REFweb |last=WHO (World Health Organization) |title=Information Package on Male Circumcision and HIV Prevention (Insert 2) (Document unreadable!) |url=https://www.who.int/hiv/pub/malecircumcision/infopack_en_2.pdf |format=PDF |date=2007-03-26 |accessdate=2020-03-26}}</ref><ref>{{REFweb |last=WHO (World Health Organization) |title=Information Package on Male Circumcision and HIV Prevention (Insert 3) |url=https://www.who.int/hiv/pub/malecircumcision/infopack_en_3.pdf |format=PDF |date=2007-03-26 | firstaccessdate=2020-03-26}}</ref><ref>{{REFweb | yearlast=WHO (World Health Organization) | title=Information Package on Male Circumcision and HIV Prevention(Insert 4) | url=httphttps://www.who.int/hiv/mediacentrepub/infopack_en_1malecircumcision/infopack_en_4.pdf |format=PDF |date=2007-03-26 | accessdate=20112020-03-26}}</ref><ref>{{REFweb |last=WHO (World Health Organization) |title=Information Package on Male Circumcision and HIV Prevention (Insert 5) |url=https://www.who.int/hiv/pub/malecircumcision/infopack_en_5.pdf |format=PDF |date=2008-11-05 |accessdate=2020-0703-26}}</ref> At [[Rakai Project|their clinic]], a music video promoting [[circumcision ]] plays continuously.<ref>{{REFweb | last=JohnsHopkinsSPH | first= | yeardate=2010-10-01 | title=Rakai Project | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mXFdXJaG8k#t=8m37s | accessdate=2011-04-10
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| align="center" | [[{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]
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|- style="background: #DCDCDC"
| align="center" | '''Married To:'''
| align="center" | '''Colleagues & Benefactors:'''
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| align="center" | [[Maria Wawer]]<br>[[Robert C. Bailey]]<br>[[Bertran Auvert]]<br>[[Brian J. Morris]]<br>[[Aaron Tobian]]<br>[[Thomas C. Quinn]]
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| align="center" | '''Funded By:'''
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| align="center" | [[Bill and & Melinda Gates Foundation]]<br>[[Johns Hopkins]]<br>[[National Institutes of Health]]
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| align="right" | [[Image:Gray and Wawer.jpg|175px]]<br>Ronald Gray with his wife, and<br>colleague, [[Maria Wawer]].
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}}</ref><ref>{{REFweb
| last=smugamba | first= | yeardate=2010-06-06 | title=Rakai Male Circumcision Video By Stephen Mugamba Feat Jemima Sanyu.mpg | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rtEdNl322Q | accessdate=2011-04-10
}}</ref> He sometimes goes by the name Ron.<ref name="Morris-Cancer">{{REFjournal
| last=Morris | first=Brian JamesJ. |init=BJ |author-link=Brian J. Morris |last2=Gray |first2=Ronald H. |init2=RH | coauthors author2-link= Ron Ronald H. Gray, |last3=Castellsagué |first3=Xavier Castellsagué, |init3=X |last4=Bosch |first4=F. Xavier Bosch, |init4=FX |last5=Halperin |first5=Daniel T. Halperin, C |init5=DT |last6=Hankins |init6=CA |last7=Waskett |first7=Jake H. A. Hankins, and |init7=JH |author7-link=Jake H. Waskett | pubyeardate=2011-03-09 | title=The Strong Protective Effect of Circumcision Against Cancer of the Penis | journal=Advanced in Urology | volume= | issue= | pages= | url=http://www.hindawi.com/journals/au/aip/812368/ | accessdate=2011-03-13
}}</ref>
== Ronald Gray's RCT ==
Of the three RCTs {{#tip-text:RCT|Randomized controlled trial}}s being used by the [[WHO ]] to promote circumcision as [[HIV ]] prevention, Gray supervised the {{#tip-text:RCT |Randomized controlled trial}} that was carried out in Uganda.<ref>{{RCT Gray RH. Kigozi G, Serwadda D, et al. Male circumcision for HIV prevention in men in Rakai, Uganda: a randomised trial. Lancet 2007;369:557-66.}}</ref> Two other RCTs {{#tip-text:RCT|Randomized controlled trial}}s were supervised by [[Robert C. Bailey]] and [[Bertran Auvert]] respectively. All three RCTs {{#tip-text:RCT|Randomized controlled trial}}s were funded by the American [[National Institutes of Health]].<ref name='DOC 2008'>{{REFwebQuoteREFweb | quote=...funding from the United States National Institutes of Health to conduct randomized controlled trials (RCTs{{#tip-text:RCT|Randomized controlled trial}}s) in Africa. | last= | first= | publisher=[[Doctors Opposing Circumcision(D.O.C.)]] | yeardate=2008 | urltitletitle=The Use of Male Circumcision to Prevent HIV Infection | url=http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/info/HIVStatement.html | accessdate=2011-03-05
}}</ref>
In 2010,<ref>{{REFjournal
| last=Gray |init=RH, |author-link=Ronald H. Gray |last2=Bailey |init2=RC, |last3=Morris |init3=BJ | firstauthor3-link=Brian J. Morris | pubyeardate=June 2010, June | title=Keratinization of the adult male foreskin and implications for male circumcision | journal=AIDS | volume=24 | issue=9 | pages=1381; author reply 1381–2 | url= | accessdate= | pmidpubmedID=20559044 | doiDOI=10.1097/QAD.0b013e3283392555 |accessdate=
}}</ref> and again in 2011,<ref name="Morris-Cancer"/> Gray published studies with [[Brian J. Morris]].
The three RCTs that purport to show that [[circumcision]] reduces [[HIV]] infection have been completely discredited. Boyle & Hill (2011) reviewed the three randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and found disabling methodological and statistical errors in all three. Although a 60 percent ''relative'' reduction in [[HIV]] was claimed, the ''absolute'' reduction was a statistically insignificant 1.3 percent.<ref name="boyle-hill2011">{{BoyleGJ HillG 2011}}</ref> [[Michel Garenne|Garenne]] & Matthews (2019) report that [[circumcised]] men have as much [[HIV]] infection as [[intact]] men.<ref>{{REFjournal
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|title=Voluntary medical male circumcision and HIV in Zambia: expectations and observations
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|DOI=10.1017/S0021932019000634
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== Quotes ==
{{Citation
| Title= | Text=<span style="background:#d7f5ff">We've never used surgery to prevent an infectious disease.</span> It's a completely new concept, a new paradigm. How can we train all the surgeons to do this procedure and equip them. | Author=[[Ronald H. Gray]] | Source=JohnsHopkinsSPH| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation= | ref=<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BHR9rnoelc#t=1m51s JohnsHopkinsSPH, (2009). ''Impact''.]</ref>
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{{Citation
| Title= | Text=It's been hard to change policy, because <span style="background:#d7f5ff">this is a whole new paradigm.</span> We've never used surgery to prevent an infectious disease. Policy makers have to really take some time to wrap their minds around it. | Author=[[Ronald H. Gray]] | Source=JohnsHopkinsSPH| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation= | ref=<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mXFdXJaG8k#t=7m29s JohnsHopkinsSPH, (2010). ''Rakai project.'']</ref>
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{{Citation
| Title= | Text=It's taken longer than I would like to see these programs emerge. | Author=[[Ronald H. Gray]] | Source=JohnsHopkinsSPH| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation= | ref=<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mXFdXJaG8k#t=7m59s JohnsHopkinsSPH, (2010). ''Rakai project.'']</ref>
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{{Citation
| Title=The Latest Fight Over Foreskin | Text=If you were to ask me, should the U.S. be promoting circumcision, my answer would be, ‘no,’ What I do think ought to be the policy is that parents should be informed about the potential protective effects. | Author=[[Ronald H. Gray]] | Source=N.Y. Times| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation= | ref=<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/weekinreview/30rabin.html?_r=0 N.Y. Times, The Latest Fight Over Foreskin, (8/29/2009).]</ref>
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== Population-based studies ==
{{Population-based studies}}
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Bias]]
* [[Circumcision and HIV]]
* [[Circumcised doctors]]
* [[United States of America]]
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