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12 million men and boys have been circumcised in the campaign, largely on American taxpayer dollars through the President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief ([[PEPFAR]]). Because many men refuse circumcision, "early infant male circumcision" (EIMC) was added to the VMMC agenda in 2016.
== History ==
The VMMC Experience Project was established in 2014 to give a voice to the people affected by the West’s mass circumcision campaign in Africa. Their mission is to empower the most frequently overlooked contingent: Africans. The project director is [[Prince Hillary Maloba]] from Kenya. Their work is currently based in West Kenya and East Uganda.
They sent people with cameras to Uganda and Kenya, who documented the realities of the mass circumcision program. Local investigators conducted interviews with 90 affected men and women<ref>https://www.thestreet.com/story/13910168/3/africans-speak-out-against-the-mass-circumcision-campaign.html</ref> and found:* Africans are told [[circumcision ]] conveys immunity from [[HIV]].* Condom use is at an all-time low, and [[AIDS ]] is on the rise.
* The program is killing the very people it is supposed to help.
* No follow-up post circumcision (cut-and-release approach).
* Resentment and outrage among Africans.<ref>{{REFnews |title=Africans Speak Out Against the Mass Circumcision Campaign |url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/africans-speak-out-against-the-mass-circumcision-campaign-300370353.htmlhtm |last= |first= |coauthors= |publisher= |website=https://www.prnewswire.com |date=2016-12-01 |accessdate=2020-09-05 |quote=}}l</ref>
Various representatives from the VMMC Experience Project used the [[MOGiS e.V.|MOGiS]] Press Conference on May 4th in Berlin, Germany, to explain their mission to the world.<ref>{{REFnews |title=Who's For and Who's Against Circumcision for HIV Prevention |url=https://newswire.net/newsroom/news/00096293-circumcision-in-hiv-battle-pros-and-cons.html |last=Todorovic |first=Dragana |coauthors= |publisher=Newswire |website= |date=2017-05-11 |accessdate=2020-09-05 |quote=}}</ref>
===Report to the United Nations=== The VMMC Experience Project has published a massive, illustrated 153-page report on VMMC in Africa for the United Nations.<ref name="fish2019">{{REFREFdocument |title=Circumcision Campaigns: African experience and human rights: The U.N. Report |trans-title= |language= |url=https://www.vmmcproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/VMMC-UN-Report.pdf |archived= |contribution= |quote= |trans-quote= |quote-lang= |last=Fish |first=Max |author-link=Max Fish |publisher=VMMC Experience Project |location= |format=PDF |date=2019-05-07 |accessdate=2021-05-15}}</ref> == Position of [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)]] == [[George C. Denniston]], {{MD}}, {{MPH}}, the president of [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)]], in a letter to Ambassador Deborah L. Birx, {{MD}}, {{MPH}}, (2020), the head of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief ([[PEPFAR]]) has called on PEPFAR to suspend the provision of male [[circumcision]] because it is ineffective and may increase the reception of [[HIV]] infection due to the loss of [[Immunological and protective function of the foreskin| immunological protections]] of the [[foreskin]], and to focus on the provision of anti-retroviral therapy and condoms.<ref name="denniston2020">{{REFdocument |title=World Health Organization, HIV, and male circumcision |url=https://pool.intactiwiki.org/images/2020-06-15b_LettertoPEPFAR.pdf |contribution= |last=Denniston |first=George C. |author-link=George C. Denniston |publisher=[[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)]] |format= |date=2020-06-29 |accessdate=2020-09-04}}</ref> == Inflated male circumcision data ==In 2021, a fact-checking study by the US [[CDC]] has confirmed as false previous data claiming ridiculously high male circumcision rates in Kenya’s [[HIV]] control programme. The report published on Thursday (July 15, 2021) in the journal Plos One says the fact-checking had been provoked by conflicting reports of huge success and yet persistent high demand suggesting a need for more funding. The 2018 report had claimed success rates of more than 100 per cent in Kisumu, Siaya, Homa Bay and Migori counties.<ref>{{REFnews |url=https://www.rocketsciences.co.ke/2021/07/16/us-cdc-confirms-kenya-falsified-male-circumcision-data/ |title=US CDC confirms Kenya inflated male circumcision data |date=2021-07-16 |website=Rocket Science |accessdate=2021-07-27}}</ref>{{SEEALSO}}* [[Stop the Cut]]* [[African Voices Against Circumcision-AVAC]]
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* [{{URLwebsite|http://www.vmmcproject.org|2019-09-16}}* {{URL-FBpage|pg/ Website]vmmcproject|2019-09-16}}* [https://www.facebookeurekalert.comorg/pgpub_releases/vmmcproject2020-09/ Facebook pageuos-mcc091020.php Male circumcision campaigns in Africa to fight HIV are a form of cultural imperialism] {{ABBR}}{{REF}}
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