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|date=2021-12-17
|accessdate=2021-12-30
}}</ref> PEPFAR claims to have performed 27.7 million circumcisions on men and boys,<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.state.gov/pepfar-global-results-factsheet/
|title=Latest Global Results
|last=
|first=
|date=2021-12
|accessdate=2021-12-31
}}</ref> all of which we now know to have been ineffective at preventing HIV infection.<ref name="garenne-matthews2019">{{REFjournal
|last=Garenne
|init=M
|author-link=
|last2=Matthews
|init2=A
|author2-link=
|etal=no
|title=Voluntary medical male circumcision and HIV in Zambia: expectations and observations
|journal=J Biosoc Sci
|date=2019-10-14
|volume=Epub ahead of print
|pages=1-13
|pubmedID=31608845
|DOI=10.1017/S0021932019000634
|accessdate=2021-12-31
}}</ref> Circumcision of boys who had not reached age 15 had to be stopped in November 2019 because of the high rate of injury.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/pepfar-scandal-finally-to-end-botched-male-circumcision-campaign-in-africa.3462477/
|title=PEPFAR SCANDAL: Finally To End Botched Male Circumcision Campaign In Africa
|last=
|first=
|date=2020-04-30
|accessdate=2021-04-30
}}</ref>