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|Text=...the association between having a sexually transmitted disease (STD) - excluding human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and being circumcised are inconclusive... most of the studies [of the effect of circumcision on HIV] ...have been conducted in developing countries, particularly those in Africa. Because of the challenges with maintaining good hygiene and access to condoms, these results are probably not generalizable to the U.S. population
|Author=[[American Academy of Family Physicians]] (AAFP)
|Source=official website
|ref=<ref>{{REFweb
|quote=
|url=http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/clinical/clinicalrecs/children/circumcision.html
|title=Circumcision: Position Paper on Neonatal Circumcision. Board Approved: August 2007 Reaffirmed
|last=
|first=
|publisher=AAFP
|date=
|accessdate=2011-05-02
}}</ref>
}}
→United States of America: Add vogel.response, add Hugh Young response..
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) would take the lead and create a task force to draft a new statement. It would have representatives from AAFP and ACOG. The monetary intent of the AAP, ACOG, and AAFP is made clear by the appointment of medical insurance specialist Steven Wegner, MD, JD, representing the AAP Committee on Child Health Financing, to the task force.
The AAP released its two-part statement<ref name="2012policy">{{REFjournal
}}</ref> in 2012 and it was immediately endorsed by ACOG and AAFP, who put up similar statements on their websites.
The statement immediately received scathing, withering critical comment from many sources, <ref>{{REFweb |url=http://www.circumstitions.com/news/news48.html#aap12 |archived= |title=Intactivism News |trans-title= |language=English |last=Young |first=Hugh |author-link= |publisher= |website=www.circumstitions.com |date=2012-08 |accessdate=2020-06-26 |format= |quote=}}</ref> including [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision]], an association of European doctors,<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Frisch
|first=M
|author2-link=Robert S. Van Howe
|etal=no
|title=Out of step: fatalflaws fata lflaws in the latest AAP policy report on neonatal circumcision
|trans-title=
|language=
|DOI=0.1136/medethics-2013-101346
|accessdate=2020-06-25
}}</ref> <ref>{{REFjournal |last=Van Howe |first=Robert S. |author-link=Robert S. Van Howe |etal=no |title=Response to Vogelstein: How the 2012 AAP Task Force on circumcision went wrong |trans-title= |language=English |journal=Wiley Bioethics |location= |date=2018-01 |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=77-80 |url=https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/56031979/Van_Howe_2018.pdf? |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=28691236 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1111/bioe.12363 |accessdate=2020-06-26}} Example</ref>
The AAP standard policy is for their policy statement to expire after five years unless re-affirmed. The AAP circumcision policy statement expired in September 2017 but has not been re-affirmed, so the AAP now has ''no '' official position on circumcision, although it continues to quote from the expired statement.
The other two trade association have statements that are based on the expired AAP statement. Are they still validrepresentative of the opinion of those trade associations? No one knows.
{{Citation |Text=...benefits are not sufficient for the American Academy of Pediatrics to recommend that all infant boys be circumcised.
|Author=American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
|Source=official website
|date=
|accessdate=2011-03-23
}}</ref>
{{Citation|Text=...the association between having a sexually transmitted disease (STD) - excluding human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and being circumcised are inconclusive... most of the studies [of the effect of circumcision on HIV] ...have been conducted in developing countries, particularly those in Africa. Because of the challenges with maintaining good hygiene and access to condoms, these results are probably not generalizable to the U.S. population|Author=[[American Academy of Family Physicians]] (AAFP)|Source=official website
|ref=<ref>{{REFweb|quote=|url=http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/clinical/clinicalrecs/children/circumcision.html
|title=Circumcision: Position Paper on Neonatal Circumcision. Board Approved: August 2007 Reaffirmed|last=|first=|publisher=AAFP
|date=|accessdate=2011-05-02
}}</ref>
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