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<youtube>hzU_uK1tCsA</youtube>Short A YouTube video with short video vignettes with a soccer theme that was field tested in communal video houses in Nyanza, Kenya during the 2010 World Cup Soccer broadcasts, has been removed from the web already.<ref>{{REFweb |last= |first=
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[[Image:Vmmc.jpg|right|thumb|VMMC]]
The Government of Kenya (GOK) through the support of the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation (MOPHS), the National [[AIDS ]] and STIs Control Programme (NASCOP) and Department of Health Promotion, as well as [[C-Change]], [[CDC]], FHI, PSI, [[UNICEF]] and the implementing partners (NRHS, IRDO, FACES , APHIA II Nyanza Program and the CMMB) have launched a '''Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision''' (VMMC) program in Kenya.<ref>{{REFweb
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{{Citation
|Title=Woman encouraging man to get circumcised
|Text=Once your foreskin is tough... your [[skin ]] doesn't bruise easily
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|Source=VMMC
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|date=2010-12
|title=VMMC Soccer Videos from Kenya
|publisher=VMMC.m4v
|accessdate=2011-04-28
}}</ref> But the FIFA website still shows information and video material about Kenyan campaigns for motivating the youth to "make the cut" through football messages.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.fifa.com/football-development/news/vijana-amani-pamoja-helping-kenyan-youth-3021514
|title=Vijana Amani Pamoja helping Kenyan youth
|date=2019-03-29
|accessdate=2022-04-12
}}</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>
==Circumcision does not prevent HIV infection==
=== Population-based studies ===
{{Population-based studies}}
===Two African surveys===
The previously reported studies were from developed Western nations. Now we have information from Sub_Saharan Africa.
French scientist [[Michel Garenne]], Ph.D. has published two reports in 2022 comparing the incidence of HIV infection in [[circumcised]] and [[intact]] men.
In his first report, Garenne presented the findings from a study in Lesotho, the enclave in South Africa. He reported:
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In couple studies, the effect of circumcision and VMMC on HIV was not significant, with similar transmission from female to male and male to female. The study questions the amount of effort and money spent on VMMC in Lesotho.<ref name="garenne2022A">{{REFjournal
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|author-link=Michel Garenne
|title=Changing relationships between HIV prevalence and circumcision in Lesotho
|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35373731/
|date=2022-04-04
|journal=J Biosoc Sci
|volume=online ahead of print
|pages=1-16
|DOI=10.1017/S0021932022000153
|pubmedID=35373731
|accessdate=2022-11-07
}}</ref>
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In his second report, Garenne (2022) presented information from six Sub-Saharan African nations (Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe). He reported:
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"Results matched earlier observations made in South Africa that [[circumcised]] and [[intact]] men had similar levels of HIV infection."<ref name="garenne2022B">{{REFjournal
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|title=Age-incidence and prevalence of HIV among intact and circumcised men: an analysis of PHIA surveys in Southern Africa
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|journal=J Biosoc Sci
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|date=2022-10-26
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|pages=1-13
|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-biosocial-science/article/abs/ageincidence-and-prevalence-of-hiv-among-intact-and-circumcised-men-an-analysis-of-phia-surveys-in-southern-africa/CAA7E7BD5A9844F41C6B7CC3573B9E50
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|DOI=10.1017/S0021932022000414
|accessdate=2022-11-07
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{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Catholic Medical Mission Board]]
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