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==Adult life==
Kilmarx joined the [https://www.peacecorps.gov/ Peace Corp] and served in Africa. He joined the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] in 1995,<ref name="hopkins2017" /> where he served as Chief, Epidemiology Branch, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. Kilmarx is substantially responsible for the encouragement promotion of non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] at by the [[CDC]].<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://twitter.com/cutfraud/status/1557881676939907078
|title=Circumcision is a fraud
|accessdate=2022-09-14
}}</ref> There is substantial evidence that Kilmarx holds a high degree of [[bias]] in favor of [[circumcision]].
Fish et al. (2020) identify Kilmarx as a major architect of the CDC's erroneous circumcision promotion policy with its racist orientation.<ref>{{REFjournal
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|first2=Ariane
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|first3=Tatenda
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|last4=Tangwa
|first4=Godfrey B.
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|last5=Ncayiyana
|first5=Daniel
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|last6=Earp
|first6=Brian D.
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|title=A new Tuskegee? Unethical human experimentation and Western neocolonialism in the mass circumcision of African men.
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|journal=Dev World Bioeth
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|date=2021-12
|volume=21
|issue=4
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|pages=211-26
|url=http://circumcisionharm.org/images-circharm.org/Fish%20Earp%20New%20Tuskegee%20Dev%20World%20Bioeth%202020.pdf
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|DOI=10.1111/dewb.12285
|accessdate=2022-09-27
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Kilmarx is a very active writer. He is listed as as author or co-author of [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Peter+Kilmarx 121 articles] by the PubMed service of the National Library of Medicine. Some are very pro-circumcision.