Circumcision fanaticism
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Circumcision fanaticism is the fanaticism that the medically not indicated genital mutilation of children has advantages which outweight the risks and thus recommends HGM on minors, ignoring all risks and legal aspects.
This article is a starting point to learning more about persons, organizations and financial gain linked to circumcision fanaticism.
Contents
Persons
Organizations
Organizations in Africa
After three randomized controlled trials designed to collect experimental evidence of a causal relationship between lack of circumcision and HIV, the WHO and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) stated that male circumcision is an efficacious intervention for HIV prevention but should be carried out by well trained medical professionals and under conditions of informed consent (parents consent for their infant boys). Both the WHO and CDC indicate that circumcision may not reduce HIV transmission from men to women, and that data is lacking for the transmission rate of men who engage in anal sex with a female partner. The joint WHO/UNAIDS recommendation also notes that circumcision only provides partial protection from HIV and should never replace known methods of HIV prevention.
Some earlier reports had expressed the position that circumcision has little to no effect on HIV transmission among heterosexual couples. Furthermore, some have challenged the validity of the African randomized controlled trials, prompting a number of researchers to question the effectiveness of circumcision as an HIV prevention strategy.
This category lists researchers, promoters and organizations involved in the African RCTs and the subsequent circumcision programs.
- AccuCirc
- AIDS Free World
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- C-Change
- Clearinghouse on Male Circumcision
- Hope Rising
- Male circumcision consortium
- Marie Stopes International
- National Institutes of Health
- PEPFAR
- Population Services International
- Rakai Health Sciences Program
- The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
- UNAIDS
- UNICEF
- USAID
- Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision
- WHO (World Health Organization)
Organizations in general
The following is a list of organizations that fund, promote, endorse and profit from circumcision and circumcision research. Click their names below to see who their affiliates and addressees are.
- ACOG
- Acorn Society
- Advanced Tissue Sciences
- AIDS Free World
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- BOTUSA
- Catholic Medical Mission Board
- Centers for Disease Control
- Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation
- Circlist
- Circumcision Academy of Australia
- Cutting Club
- Food and Drug Administration
- Gilgal Society
- Health Communication Partnership
- Histogen
- LifeCell Corporation
- Male circumcision consortium
- Marie Stopes International
- Neocutis
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Operation Abraham
- Organogenesis
- Population Services International
- Priontex
- SkinMedica
- The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
- UNAIDS
- UNICEF
- USAID
- WHO (World Health Organization)
Financial gain
The following is a list of organizations that obtain profit from circumcision devices, performing circumcisions or exploiting foreskins harvested from neonate circumcisions.