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Various representatives from the VMMC Experience Project used the [[MOGiS e.V.|MOGiS]] Press Conference on May 4th in Berlin, Germany, to explain their mission to the world.<ref>https://newswire.net/newsroom/news/00096293-circumcision-in-hiv-battle-pros-and-cons.html</ref>
==Position of Doctors Opposing Circumcision==
[[George C. Denniston]], M. D., M. P. H., the president of [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)| Doctors Opposing Circumcision]], in a letter to Ambassador Deborah L. Birx, M.D., M. P. H., (2020), the head of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has called on PEPFAR to suspend the provision of male [[circumcision]] because it is ineffective and may increase the reception of HIV infection due to the loss of [[Immunological and protective function of the foreskin| immunological protections]] of the [[foreskin]], and to focus on the provision of anti-retroviral therapy and condoms.<ref name="denniston2020">{{REFdocument
|title=World Health Organization, HIV, and male circumcision
|url=https://pool.intactiwiki.org/images/2020-06-15b_LettertoPEPFAR.pdf
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|last=Denniston
|first=George C.
|publisher=Doctors Opposing Circumcision
|format=
|date=2020-06-29
|accessdate=2020-09-04
}}</ref>
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