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'''Bertran Auvert ''' is a biased pro-circumcision researcher of French origin who has been a circumcision proponent since at least 2003.<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Rain-Taljaard RC, |first=R.C. |last2=Lagarde |first2=E, . |last3=Taljaard DJ, |first3=D.J. |last4=Campbell |first4=C, . |last5=MacPhail |first5=C, . |last6=Williams |first6=B, . |last7=Auvert |first7=B. Potential for an intervention based on male circumcision in a South African town with high levels of HIV infection. Aids Care 2003;15(3):315 |author7-27</ref><ref>Rain-Taljaard RC, Lagarde E, Taljaard DJ, Campbell C, MacPhail C, Williams B, link=Bertran Auvert B. |title=Potential for an intervention based on male circumcision in a South African town with high levels of HIV infection. |journal=Aids Care |year=2003; |volume=15( |issue=3): |pages=315-27. [PubMed]327}}</ref> Auvert was responsible for one of the three latest African circumcision trials, <refname="Auvert PLoS">{{REFjournal

|date=2005-10-25

|volume=October 25, 20052

|pages=e298

}}</ref> which are being used by the [[WHO|World Health Organization]] to endorse circumcision as an HIV prevention method.<ref>{{REFweb | last=[[WHO|World Health Oranization]] | first= |author-link=WHO | year= | title=WHO Male circumcision for HIV prevention | url=http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/malecircumcision/en/index.html | accessdate=2011-03-03}}</ref> He associates with the [[Gilgal Society]],<ref>{{REFweb | last=Morris | first=Brian |author-link=Brian J. Morris | coauthors=Vernon Quaintance | yeardate=2007 | title=Sex and Circumcision What every Woman needs to know | url=http://www.circinfo.net/pdfs/GFW-EN%200712-1.pdf | accessdate=2011-02-27 | format=PDF | publisher=The Gilgal Society

</ref> and is good friends with [[Bill Gates]].<refname="Lyons 2010">{{REFweb | last=Lyons | first=Daniel | year=2010 | title=Saving The World, 2.0 | url=http://www.newsweek.com/2010/01/24/saving-the-world-2-0.html | accessdate=2011-03-03 | date=2010-01-25 | publisher=Harman Newsweek LLC | website=Newsweek

An {{#tip-text:RCT |Randomized controlled trial}} funded by the United States [[National Institutes of Health]] (NIH)<ref name='DOC 2008'>{{REFnews | url=http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/info/HIVStatement.html | title=The Use of Male Circumcision to Prevent HIV Infection | date=2008 | publisher=[[Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] | quote=...funding from the United States National Institutes of Health to conduct randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in Africa. | accessdate=2011-03-05

</ref> was carried out in Orange Farm, South Africa under the supervision of Bertran Auvert.<ref>name="Auvert B, Taljaard D, Lagarde E, Sobngwi-Tambekou J, Sitta R, et al. (2005) Randomized, controlled intervention trial of male circumcision for reduction of HIV infection risk: The ANRS 1265 trial. PLoS Med 2:e298. [http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020298 Full Text]<"/ref> The British medical journal the Lancet decided against publishing Bertran's study. Lancet officials, following standard policy at the journal, refused to comment on why the study was turned down.<ref>{{REFnews |last=Schoofs, |first=M, . |last2=Lueck, |first2=S, & |last3=Phillips, MM |first3=M.M. ( |date=2005, July -07-05). |title=Study says circumcision reduces AIDS risk by 70%. |publishere=The Wall Street Journal, p. |pages=A1.}}</ref>

| last=Medscape | first= | yeardate=2005-07/-29/2005 | title=Randomized Clinical Trial Shows Male Circumcision Has Great Potential to Curb HIV Infections in Africa | url=http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/509662 | accessdate=2011-03-03 | publisher = Medscape

| Text=Bertran Auvert, is so modest about his work, but he has new theories that we're putting money behind and he is just making it work. | Author=Bill Gates: Discussing Bertran's Circumcision "Studies" | Source=Newsweek | ref=<ref>[http://www.newsweek.com/2010/01/24/saving-the-world-2-0.html name="Lyons, D. (2010, January 25). Saving the world, 2.0. ''Newsweek'',]<"/ref>