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This article discusses the relationship of male '''circumcision and HIV''' infection. For a discussi of circumcision and other sexually transmitted infections, see [[Circumcision and STDs]].
Recently, circumcision has been heavily promoted as a method of preventing HIV. The [[World Health Organization|World Health Organization]] (WHO) has , now known to be corrupted, hasitly endorsed male circumcision as a form of HIV preventionin 2007, based on three recent studies (2005)& (2007) conducted in Africa (Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda) which claim that male circumcision is supposed to "reduce the risk of HIV transmission by 60%."<ref>{{REFweb
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