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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is a North American circumcision proponent and biased researcher looking for justifications to roll-out mass circumcision programs around the world. He headed one of the three {{#tip-text:RCT|Randomized controlled trial}}s being used by the [[WHO]] to endorse circumcision as [[HIV ]] prevention.<ref>{{REFweb
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|title=Information Package on Male Circumcision and HIV Prevention (Insert 1)
== Ronald Gray's RCT ==
Of the three {{#tip-text:RCT|Randomized controlled trial}}s being used by the WHO to promote circumcision as [[HIV ]] prevention, Gray supervised the {{#tip-text:RCT|Randomized controlled trial}} that was carried out in Uganda.<ref>{{REFjournal
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}}</ref> and again in 2011,<ref name="Morris-Cancer"/> Gray published studies with [[Brian J. Morris]].
The three RCTs that purport to show that circumcision reduces [[HIV ]] infection have been completely discredited. Boyle & Hill (2011) reviewed the three randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and found disabling methodological and statistical errors in all three. Although a 60 percent ''relative'' reduction in [[HIV ]] was claimed, the ''absolute'' reduction was a statistically insignificant 1.3 percent.<ref name="boyle-hill2011">{{BoyleGJ HillG 2011}}</ref> Garenne & Matthews (2019) report that circumcised men have as much [[HIV ]] infection as intact men.<ref>{{REFjournal
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{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Bias]]
* [[Circumcision and HIV]]