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The '''Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation''' actively promote male circumcision as "''[[HIV ]] prevention''",<ref name='circ-search'>{{REFweb
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=== The case of the disappearing articles ===
An article "Circumcision does not affect [[HIV ]] in U.S. men" disappeared from MSN<ref>{{REFnews
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Another article titled "Scientists discover natural barrier to [[HIV]]" referring to the Langerhans cells of the foreskin, also disappeared from MSN:<ref>{{REFweb
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These articles and the core study are specially intriguing because traditionally it was thought that the [http://intactipedia.org/index.php?title=Langerhans_cells Langerhans cells] of the [http://intactipedia.org/index.php?title=Foreskin Prepuce (foreskin)] constituted an entry point for [[HIV]]<ref name="Kawamura-2005">{{REFjournal
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|date=2005-12
|title=The role of Langerhans cells in the sexual transmission of HIV.
|journal=J Dermatol Sci
|volume=40
|pubmedID=16226431
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}}</ref>, and this concept is one of the reasons behind the hypothesis that [http://intactipedia.org/index.php?title=Circumcision_and_HIV circumcision may reduce the risk of a male becoming infected with HIV from a female partner]. This Dutch study contradicts this idea, by stating that the Langerhans cells block [[HIV]]<ref name="de Witte-2007">{{REFjournal
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* {{REFweb
|url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/for-professionals/alleged-medical-benefits/hivaids/
|title=HIV/AIDS
|publisher=Doctors Opposing Circumcision
|date=2020
|accessdate=2020-07-16
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