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|DOI=10.1111/j.1464-410X.2005.05810.x
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}}</ref><ref>12. Bailey RC, Moses S, Parker CB, et al. Male circumcision for [[HIV ]] prevention in young men in Kisumu, Kenya: a randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2007;369:643-56</ref> which are being used by the [[WHO|World Health Organization]] (under the guide of [[UNAIDS]]) to endorse circumcision as an [[HIV ]] prevention method.<ref>{{REFweb
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|title=Information Package on Male Circumcision and HIV Prevention (Insert 1)
== Circumcision Research ==
Since 1995, Bailey has devoted most of his research activities to promoting male circumcision as a [[HIV ]] prevention strategy.<ref>{{REFweb
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}}</ref> He has conducted circumcision-related studies in varying communities in Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, and the U.S. He has studied adverse events and conducted needs assessments associated with medical and traditional circumcisions in Kenya.
Bailey is the principal investigator of the randomized controlled trial of male circumcision to reduce [[HIV ]] incidence in Kisumu, Kenya, and he has served as a consultant to [[WHO]], [[UNAIDS]], [[UNICEF]], the [[World Bank]], [[USAID]], the [[CDC]], and other national and international governmental and non-governmental agencies.<ref name="Bailey"/>
In 2010, Bailey published a study with [[Brian J. Morris]].<ref>{{REFjournal
}}</ref> While it may appear as if two independent medical organizations are publishing research, Robert Bailey happens to be a Professor of Epidemiology and an adjunct professor of Anthropology in the University of Chicago at Illinois, as well as the Secretary of the Board of the Nyanza Reproductive Health Society.
Bailey's research on circumcision protection from [[HIV ]] infection is now completely discredited. Boyle & Hill (2011) reviewed the three randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and found disabling methodological and statistical errors in all three. Although a 60 percent ''relative'' reduction in [[HIV ]] was claimed, the ''absolute'' reduction was a statistically insignificant 1.3 percent.<ref name="boyle-hill2011">{{BoyleGJ HillG 2011}}</ref> Garenne & Matthews (2019) report that circumcised men have as much [[HIV ]] infection as intact men.<ref>{{REFjournal
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== Advocacy ==
Bailey is one of the primary modern day advocates for male circumcision. His research interest include "male circumcision as a strategy for [[HIV]]/STD prevention." He has written numerous articles advocating wholesale circumcision campaigns.<ref>{{REFweb
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Bailey and [[Daniel T. Halperin]] convinced eastern and south African "healers" to perform foreskin removal "as a way to alleviate chronic STD infection and prevent AIDS" in the 1990's. During the nineties alone, they convinced hundreds of South African men that circumcision would prevent [[HIV]].<ref>{{REFjournal
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