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'''Anthony Fauci''', M.D.{{MD}}, (b. {{LifeData|1940-12-24 December 1940}}) is the American physician-scientist and immunologist serving as the director of the [https://www.niaid.nih.gov/ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases] (NIAID) since 1984.<ref name="niaid">{{REFweb
|url=https://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/director
|title=Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID Director
|last= |first= |datepublisher=NIAID
|accessdate=2021-12-30
}}</ref>
Fauci's name is much in the news today in regard to the COVID-19 pandemic, but this article is narrowly focused on his role as a friend of [[Bill Gates]] and a promoter of [[circumcision]].
==Circumcision promotion==
===Funder of Africa RCT "research".===
Fauci, as Director of NIAID, controlled a very large research budget,<ref name="kennedy2021C">{{REFbook
|last=Kennedy, Jr.
|first=Robert F.
|init=RF
|year=2021
|title=The Real Anthony Fauci
|url=
|pages=244
| location=New York
|publisher=Skyhorse Publishing
|ISBN=978-I51076680-8
|accessdate=2021-12-28
}}</ref> from which he allocated funds for two randomized controlled trials to be carried out in Africa. The trials supposedly were to determine if male circumcision was an effective at preventing female to male HIV infection, but were so conducted as to prove what the researchers wanted to prove — that male circumcision prevented [[HIV ]] infection. Fauci's NIAID approved of a grant (UO1 AI11171-01-02) from the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), Division of AIDS, National Institutes of Health (NIH), and in part by the Division of Intramural Research, NIAID, NIH resulted in:
# {{REFjournal |last=Bailey |init=RC, |author-link=Robert C. Bailey |last2=Moses |init2=S, |author2-link=Stephen Moses |last3=Parker |init3=CB, et al. |etal=yes |title=Male circumcision for HIV prevention in young men in Kisumu, Kenya: A randomised controlled trial. '' |journal=Lancet''. |date=2007; |volume=369( |issue=9562): 643–656. |pages=643–56}}# {{REFjournal |last=Gray |init=RH: 2|author-link=Ronald H. Gray Gray RH, |last2=Kigozi |init2=G, |last3=Serwadda |init3=D, et al. |etal=yes |title=Male circumcision for HIV prevention in men in Rakai, Uganda: A randomised trial. '' |journal=Lancet''. |date=2007; |volume=369( |issue=9562): |pages=657-666.66}}
These RCTs and the notion that male circumcision somehow can prevent HIV infection has received massive critical comment:
|url=https://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/anthony-s-fauci-md-bio
|title=Anthony S. Fauci, M.D
|last= |firstpublisher=NIAID
|date=2021-12-17
|accessdate=2021-12-30
}}</ref>
Fish et al. (2019) criticized [[PEPFAR ]] for its racist nature.<ref name="fish2019">{{REFdocument
|title=Circumcision Campaigns: African experience and human rights: The U.N. Report
|url=https://www.vmmcproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/VMMC-UN-Report.pdf
|last=Fish
|first=Max
|author-link=Max Fish
|publisher=VMMC Experience Project
|format=PDF
|date=2019-05-07
}}</ref>
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