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| align="right" | [[Image:Bill gates visit.jpg|175px]]<br>[[Bill Gates]], [[Bertran Auvert]],<br>Dirk Taljaard, Cynthia Nhlapo

'''Bertran Auvert ''' is a [[Bias|biased ]] pro-circumcision researcher of French origin who has been a [[circumcision ]] proponent since at least 2003.<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Rain-Taljaard |init=RC, |last2=Lagarde |init2=E, |last3=Taljaard |init3=DJ, |last4=Campbell |init4=C, |last5=MacPhail |init5=C, |last6=Williams |init6=B, |last7=Auvert |init7=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 the first (2005) of the three latest discredited African circumcision trials, <ref name="Auvert PLoS">{{RCT Auvert et al 2005}}</ref> which are still being used by the [[WHO|World Health Organization]] to promote [[circumcision]] as an [[HIV]] prevention method.<ref>{{REFjournalREFweb |last=AuvertWorld Health Oranization |first=Bertran |first2=Dirk |last2=Taljaard |first3=Emmanuel |last3=Lagarde |first4=Joëlle |last4=Sobngwiauthor-Tambekou |first5link=RémiWHO |last5year=Sitta |first6=Adrian |last6=Puren |date=25 October 20052007 |title=Randomized, Controlled Intervention Trial of WHO Male Circumcision circumcision for Reduction of HIV Infection Risk: The ANRS 1265 Trial |journal=PLoS Med |volume= |issue=November 2005 |pages=prevention |url=http://www.plosmedicinewho.orgint/articlehiv/info:doitopics/malecircumcision/10.1371en/journal.pmedindex.0020298html

}}</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= | 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

== Auvert's Circumcision Study circumcision study ==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(D.O.C.)]] | 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 ''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>

In a Medscape interview, Bertran was asked, "in the group of men who were [[circumcised]], I understand from the presentation that they were advised not to engage in sexual relations for approximately 5 weeks in order to recovery from the surgery. Is that correct?" Bertran replied, "Yes. We were very careful to recommend them to abstain from sex for 44 days, which is about 6 weeks after the surgical procedure, in order that they didn't have any risk of getting infected by [[HIV ]] during this healing period."<ref>{{REFweb | 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

* [{{REFjournal |url=http://mediatheque.lecrips.net/doc_num.php?explnum_id=36743 " |title=La circoncision est efficace dans la vraie vie"] |trans-title=Circumcision is effective in real life |language=French |date=2011-12 |journal=TRANSCRIPTASES. VIH et virus des hépatites |volume=147 |accessdate=2020-03-27}}* {{REFweb |url=https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Bertran-Auvert/2453633 |title=Bertran Auvert: Publications |publisher=Semantic Scholar |accessdate=2020-03-27}}

| 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>

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