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The '''Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation''' actively promote male circumcision as "''[[HIV ]] prevention''",<ref name='circ-search'>{{REFweb
|last=Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
|first=
|date=
|title=Search Results: Circumcision
|url=httphttps://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pagesideas/Search.aspx?term=media-center/press-releases/2009/06/unprecedented-scaleup-of-voluntary-male-circumcision-begins-in-swaziland-zambia |accessdate=20112021-0312-2428
}}</ref> traveling to Africa to promote it.<ref name='circ-africa-search'>{{REFweb
|last=Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
|first=
|date=2008
|title=Search Results: Circumcision Africa
|url=http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/Search.aspx?term=Circumcision%20Africa
|title=Saving The World 2.0
|url=http://www.newsweek.com/2010/01/24/saving-the-world-2-0.html
|accessdate=20112021-0312-2428
}}</ref>
}}</ref>
According to this report, "some grants have indeed spelled out coverage topics, including male circumcision to reduce transmission of [[AIDS]], and clinical trials — the latter of which are crucial for Gates-supported vaccines and drugs being tested in the developing world."
This seems to apply particularly to some of the Foundation flag programs, such as the Voluntary Male Circumcision initiatives for Africa, where according to a journalist, "as a government policy, it appears circumcision is reluctantly promoted by some MPs because other health-related and donor-funded initiatives are tied to this programme."<ref>{{REFnews
=== The case of the disappearing articles ===
An article "Circumcision does not affect [[HIV ]] in U.S. men" disappeared from MSN<ref>{{REFnews
|last=MSNBC
|first=
|date=2009-12-04
|publisher=MSNBC
|quote=Black and Latino men were just as likely to become infected with the [[AIDS ]] virus whether they were circumcised or not, Greg Millett of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found.
"We also found no protective benefit for a subset of black MSM (men who have sex with men) who also had recent sex with female partners," Millett told reporters in a telephone briefing.
}}</ref>
Another article titled "Scientists discover natural barrier to [[HIV]]" referring to the Langerhans cells of the foreskin, also disappeared from MSN:<ref>{{REFweb
|last=MSNBC
|first=
|date=2007-03-05
|publisher=Washington Post
|quote=Researchers have discovered that cells in the mucosal lining of human genitalia produce a protein that "eats up" invading HIV -- possibly keeping the spread of the [[AIDS ]] more contained than it might otherwise be.
Even more important, enhancing the activity of this protein, called ''Langerin'', could be a potent new way to curtail the transmission of the virus that causes [[AIDS]], the Dutch scientists added.
|accessdate=2012-10-02
}}</REF>
These articles and the core study are specially intriguing because traditionally it was thought that the [http://intactipedia.org/index.php?title=Langerhans_cells Langerhans cells] of the [http://intactipedia.org/index.php?title=Foreskin Prepuce (foreskin)] constituted an entry point for [[HIV]]<ref name="Kawamura-2005">{{REFjournal
|last=Kawamura
|firstinit=T.
|last2=Kurtz
|first2init2=S.E.SE
|last3=Blauvelt
|first3init3=A.
|last4=Shimada
|first4init4=S.
|date=2005-12
|title=The role of Langerhans cells in the sexual transmission of HIV.
|journal=J Dermatol Sci
|volume=40
|pubmedID=16226431
|accessdate=
}}</ref>, and this concept is one of the reasons behind the hypothesis that [http://intactipedia.org/index.php?title=Circumcision_and_HIV circumcision may reduce the risk of a male becoming infected with HIV from a female partner]. This Dutch study contradicts this idea, by stating that the Langerhans cells block [[HIV]].<ref name="de Witte-2007">{{REFjournalDeWitte etal 2007}}</ref> |last=de Witte |first=L. |last2=Nabatov |first2=A. |last3Control of the World Health Organization=Pion |first3=M. |last4=Fluitsma |first4=DRobert F. |last5=de Jong |first5=MKennedy, Jr.Areports that huge contributions from the Gates Foundation to the [[WHO]] gives [[Bill Gates]] "leverage and control over WHO's $5. |last6=de Gruijl |first6=T6 budget and over international health policy". |last7<ref name=Piguet"kennedy2021">{{REFbook |first7last=VKennedy, Jr. |last8first=van Kooyk |first8=YRobert F. |last9init=Geijtenbeek |first9year=T.B. |date=2007-032021 |title=Langerin is a natural barrier to HIV-1 transmission by Langerhans cells. |journal=Nat Med |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=367-71The Real Anthony Fauci
|url=
|pubmedIDpage=17334373301| location=New York |DOIpublisher=10.1038/nm1541Skyhorse Publishing |ISBN=978-I51076680-8 |accessdate=2021-12-28 }}</ref>.
== Quotes ==
|Author=[[Bill Gates]]
|Source=Reuters
|ref=<ref>[http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/07/19/us-aids-efficiency-idUSTRE66I2MZ20100719 Kelland, K. (2010, July 19). Bill Clinton & Bill Gates want value for money in [[AIDS ]] fight. ''Reuters.'']</ref>
}}
== Unusual Medicine medicine ==
Holy Water Healing.<ref name='holy-water-healing'>{{REFweb
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==Criticism==
The [[VMMC Experience Project]] has published a massive, illustrated 153-page report on VMMC in Africa for the United Nations.<ref name="fish2019">{{REFdocument
|title=Circumcision Campaigns: African experience and human rights: The U.N. Report
|trans-title=
|language=
|url=https://www.vmmcproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/VMMC-UN-Report.pdf
|archived=
|contribution=
|quote=
|trans-quote=
|quote-lang=
|last=Fish
|first=Max
|author-link=Max Fish
|publisher=VMMC Experience Project
|location=
|format=PDF
|date=2019-05-07
|accessdate=2021-05-15
}}</ref>
== Population-based studies ==
{{Population-based studies}}
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Bill Gates]]
* [[Circumcision and HIV]]
* [[VMMC Experience Project]]
{{LINKS}}
* {{URLwebsite|https://www.gatesfoundation.org/|2022-01-02}}
* {{REFweb
|url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/for-professionals/alleged-medical-benefits/hivaids/
|title=HIV/AIDS
|publisher=[[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)]]
|date=2020
|accessdate=2020-07-16
}}
{{REF}}
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[[Category:Circumcision in Africa]]