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Dr. '''Catherine Anita Hankins ''' C.M., OD, ({{LifeData|1949}}) from Sutton, {{CAPTC|QC}}<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/146-9817 |title=Dr. Catherine Anita Hankins: Order of Canada |website=The Governor General of Canada |accessdate=2021-10-12}}</ref>, is a Canadian epidemiologist. She is chair of the joint united nations programme on HIVAIDS [[HIV]]/[[AIDS]] ([[UNAIDS]]).<ref>{{REFjournal | last=Hankins |first=Catherine |init=C, |author-link=Catherine Hankins |last2=Forsythe |first2=Steven |init2=S, |last3=Njeuhmeli E | firstfirst3=Emmanuel | coauthorsinit3=E | date=November 2011-11-29, 2011 | title=Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision: An Introduction to the Cost, Impact, and Challenges of Accelerated Scaling Up | journal=PLoS Med | volume=8 | issue=11 | pages=1 | url=http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001127 |DOI=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001127 | accessdate=20122019-0111-0804

| last=UNAIDS | first= | yeardate=2009-09-08 September 2009 | title=Male circumcision programmes as part of combination [[HIV ]] prevention are beneficial and cost effective | url=http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/featurestories/2009/september/20090908malecircumcisionprogrammes/ | accessdate=20122019-0111-0804

| last=Hankins et al | first=Catherine | coauthorsinit=C | pubyearauthor-link=Catherine Hankins |etal=yes |date=2009-09-08 | title=Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention in High HIV Prevalence Settings: What Can Mathematical Modelling Contribute to Informed Decision Making? | journal=PLoS Med | volume=6 | issue=9 | pages= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2731851/?tool=pubmed |pubmedID=19901974 |pubmedCID=PMC2731851 |DOI=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000109 |accessdate=2019-11-04}}</ref> Hankins is a member of the coterie of [[Brian J. Morris]] and a promoter of medically unnecessary, non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of boys. {{PUB}}Hankins has co-authored papers with [[circumfetish]]ist [[Brian J. Morris]] and others to substantiate the false claim that underage circumcision would make medical sense: * {{REFjournal |title=Does Male Circumcision Protect against Sexually Transmitted Infections? Arguments and Meta-Analyses to the Contrary Fail to Withstand Scrutiny |url=https://www.academia.edu/13253560/Does_Male_Circumcision_Protect_against_Sexually_Transmitted_Infections_Arguments_and_Meta_Analyses_to_the_Contrary_Fail_to_Withstand_Scrutiny |last=Morris |first=Brian J. |init=BJ |author-link=Brian J. Morris |last2=Hankins |first2=Catherine A. |init2=CA |author2-link=Catherine Hankins |last3=Tobian |first3=Aaron A. R. |init3=AAR |author3-link=Aaron Tobian |last4=Krieger |first4=John N. |init4=JN |author4-link=John N. Krieger |last5=Klausner |first5=Jeffrey D. |init5=JD |journal=ISRN Urology |volume=2014 |articleID=684706 |pages=23 |DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/684706 |accessdate=2021-10-12}}* {{REFjournal |last=Morris |init=BJ |author-link=Brian J. Morris |last2=Tobian |init2=AAR |author2-link=Aaron Tobian |last3=Hankins |init3=CA |author3-link=Catherine Hankins |etal=yes |title=Veracity and rhetoric in paediatric medicine: a critique of Svoboda and Van Howe’s response to the AAP policy on infant male circumcision |journal=Journal of Medical Ethics |date=2014}}* {{REFjournal |last=Weiss |init=HA |author-link=Helen Weiss |last2=Halperin |init2=D |author2-link=Daniel Halperin |last3=Bailey |init3=RC |author3-link=Robert C. Bailey |last4=Hayes |init4=RJ |last5=Schmid |init5=G |last6=Hankins |init6=CA |author6-link=Catherine Hankins |title=Male circumcision for HIV prevention: from evidence to action? |journal=AIDS |volume=22 |issue=5 |pages=567–574 |date=2008}} == Population-based studies =={{Population-based studies}}==Two African surveys==The previously reported studies were from developed Western nations. Now we have information from Sub_Saharan Africa. French scientist [[Michel Garenne]], Ph.D. has published two reports in 2022 comparing the incidence of HIV infection in [[circumcised]] and [[intact]] men. In his first report, Garenne presented the findings from a study in Lesotho, the enclave in South Africa. He reported:<blockquote>In couple studies, the effect of circumcision and VMMC on HIV was not significant, with similar transmission from female to male and male to female. The study questions the amount of effort and money spent on VMMC in Lesotho.<ref name="garenne2022A">{{REFjournal |last=Garenne |first=Michel |init=M |author-link=Michel Garenne |title=Changing relationships between HIV prevalence and circumcision in Lesotho |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35373731/ |date=2022-04-04 |journal=J Biosoc Sci |volume=online ahead of print |pages=1-16 |DOI=10.1017/S0021932022000153 |pubmedID=35373731 | accessdate=20122022-0110-31}}</ref> </blockquote>  In his second report, Garenne (2022) presented information from six Sub-08Saharan African nations (Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe). He reported:<blockquote> "Results matched earlier observations made in South Africa that [[circumcised]] and [[intact]] men had similar levels of HIV infection."<ref name="garenne2022B">{{REFjournal |last=Garenne |first=Michael |init=M |author-link= |etal=no |title=Age-incidence and prevalence of HIV among intact and circumcised men: an analysis of PHIA surveys in Southern Africa |trans-title= |language= |journal=J Biosoc Sci |location= |date=2022-10-26 |season= |volume= |issue= |article= |page= |pages=1-13 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-biosocial-science/article/abs/ageincidence-and-prevalence-of-hiv-among-intact-and-circumcised-men-an-analysis-of-phia-surveys-in-southern-africa/CAA7E7BD5A9844F41C6B7CC3573B9E50 |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=36286328 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1017/S0021932022000414 |accessdate=2022-10-31}}</ref></blockquote> {{SEEALSO}}* [[Circumcision and HIV]] {{LINKS}}* {{URLwikipedia|Catherine_Hankins|Catherine Hankins|2021-10-12}}

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