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[[Image:Thomas_Frieden.jpg|right|thumb|Thomas R. Frieden]]
Dr. '''Thomas R. Frieden''' , {{MD}}, {{MPH}}, is the current former director of the U.S. [[Centers for Disease Controland Prevention]] and Prevention (CDC) and Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). He was New York City Health Commissioner from 2002–2009.<ref>{{REFweb
|quote=
|url=http://www.cdc.gov/about/leadership/leaders/Frieden.htm
|date=
|accessdate=2011-04-24
}}</ref> As Health Commissioner of New York City, Frieden tried to promote [[circumcision ]] as a way to prevent [[HIV ]] in homosexual males.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=McNeil
|first=Donald
|init=D
|date=2007-04-05
|title=New York City Plans to Promote Circumcision to Reduce Spread of AIDS
|last=Maher
|first=Theresa
|init=T
|date=2007-04-07
|title=NYC Plans To Recommend Circumcision in Anti-AIDS Crusade
|last=Young
|first=John
|init=J
|date=2007-04-07
|title=NYC Eyes Circumcision Push To Fight AIDS
|DOI=
|accessdate=2011-04-24
}}</ref> He cited the latest African trials and tried to advocate circumcision as [[HIV ]] prevention policy in general.
== [[Metzitzah b'peh]] [[herpes]] cases ==In 2005, a circumcision ritual practiced by some Orthodox Jews alarmed city health officials, after it led to three cases of [[herpes]] - — one of them fatal.<ref name='commish-letter'/>
[[Image:Metzitzah b peh.gif]]
The New York City Health Commissioner at the time, [[Thomas R. Frieden]], wrote a letter to the Jewish community pardoning the [[Yitzhok Fischer| ''mohel'' involved ]] and dropped the matter as not being a New York City public health issue by stating that "[it] is our preference for the religious community to address these issues itself."<ref name='commish-letter'>{{REFnews
|last=Frieden
|first=Thomas R.
|publisher=
|work=
|date=2005-09-21 |accessdate=2022-06-25
}}</ref>
}}
Thomas did make a number of recommendations, including the recommendation that the ''[[mohel]]'' place a glass tube or a glass tube attached to a rubber bulb around the infants infant's [[penis ]] before suction so as not to allow the lips of the ''[[mohel]]'' to come in direct contact with the child's [[bleeding ]] penis. However, since a ban was not to be placed, and since "some religious authorities consider metzitzah b’peh the only acceptable way to draw blood", he encouraged parents to "weigh the risks of [[Metzitzah b'peh|metzitzah b’peh]]" before choosing it over alternatives.<ref name='commish-letter'/>
Frieden failed, however, to consider the right of the child to [[physical integrity]], the rights of the child under international [[human rights]] laws or the limitations on consent of parents to non-therapeutic surgery on minor children.<ref name="myers2020">{{REFjournal
|last=Myers
|first=
|init=A
|author-link=Alex Myers
|last2=Earp
|first2=
|init2=BD
|author2-link=Brian D. Earp
|etal=no
|title=What is the best age to circumcise? A medical and ethical analysis
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal= Bioethics
|location=
|date=2020
|volume=34
|issue=7
|pages=645-63
|url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brian-Earp-2/publication/337720859_What_Is_the_Best_Age_to_Circumcise_A_Medical_and_Ethical_Analysis/links/5f815f61a6fdccfd7b555395/What-Is-the-Best-Age-to-Circumcise-A-Medical-and-Ethical-Analysis.pdf
|archived=
|quote=Based on a careful consideration of the relevant evidence, arguments and counterarguments, we conclude that medically unnecessary penile circumcision-like other medically unnecessary genital procedures, such as 'cosmetic' labiaplasty-should not be performed on individuals who are too young (or otherwise unable) to provide meaningful consent to the procedure.
|pubmedID=32068898
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=
|doi=10.1111/bioe.12714
|format=PDF
|accessdate=2023-12-24
}}</ref>
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Brit Milah]]
* [[HIV]]
* [[Human rights]]
* [[Metzitzah b'peh]]
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