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|url=http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/uploaded_files/BAILEY_bio.pdf
|accessdate=2011-02-27
}}</ref> Bailey has been a circumcision proponent since at least 1998.<ref>Moses S, Bailey RC, Ronald AR. Male circumcision: assessment of health benefits and risks. Sex Transm Infect 1998;74(5):368-73.</ref> Bailey was responsible (along with [[Stephen Moses]]) for one of the three major African circumcision trials (funded by NIAID, the [https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/193.html Canadian Institutes of Health Research], and the United States [[National Institutes of Health]]),<ref name='DOC 2008'>{{REFweb |last=[[Doctors Opposing Circumcision(D.O.C.)]]
|first=
|date=2016
|coauthors = Vernon Quaintance
|publisher = The Gilgal Society
}}</ref>Bailey is an ardent promoter of male circumcision.
== Circumcision research ==
|url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Robert%20C.%20Bailey
|accessdate=2011-02-27
}}</ref> He has conducted circumcision-related studies in varying communities in Uganda, [[Kenya]], Malawi, Zambia, and the [[United States| 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 [[Adolescent_and_adult_circumcision| 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"/>
== Deceptive tactics ==
In Bailey's trial, the [[circumcised ]] group had specific instructions to abstain from sex and use condoms that the intact control group did not. Bailey has admitted that "repeated study visits and intensive behavioral counseling" of the circumcised men were needed to reduce risk behaviors.<ref>{{REFnews
|url=http://www.circumstitions.com/news/News26.html#trinidad
|title=Circumcision Age-old surgery touted to reduce HIV
}}</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 {{UNI|University of Illinois Chicago|UIC}}, 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> [[Michel Garenne |Garenne]] & Matthews (2019) report that circumcised men have as much [[HIV]] infection as intact men.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Garenne
|init=M
|author-link=Michel Garenne
|last2=Matthews
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|ref=<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/health/27circumcision.html?pagewanted=all Pam Belluck. (2011-09-26). Obstacles Slow an Easy Way to Prevent H.I.V. in Men. "NY Times."]</ref>
}}
== Population-based studies ==
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{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Alleged reasons for circumcision]]
* [[Bias]]
* [[Circumcised doctors]]
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