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|Text=The Male Circumcision Consortium (MCC) works with the Government of Kenya and other partners to prevent [[HIV]] and save lives by expanding access to safe and voluntary male circumcision services.
FHI, the {{UNI|University of Illinois at Chicago|UIC}}, and EngenderHealth are partners in the Male Circumcision Consortium. The MCC is funded by a grant to FHI from the [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ]] from August 2007 to February 2013.
The Male Circumcision Consortium's objectives are to:
Their website identifies the following institutions as providing "review of materials written for the Clearinghouse":
* {{UNI|Harvard University|HU}} School of Public Health - — <i>home of [[Daniel_T._Halperin|Dr. Daniel T. Halperin]] at the AIDS Prevention Research Project</i>* Jhpiego (Johns Hopkins Program for International Education in Gynecology and Obstetrics) - — <i>Johns Hopkins is the home of [[Ronald Gray]], director of the [[Rakai Project]]</i>* London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - — <i>which has published a couple pro-circ studies by [[Helen Weiss]] et al.</i>
* {{UNI|University of Illinois at Chicago|UIC}} School of Public Health - <i>home of [[Robert_C._Bailey|Robert Bailey]], who's behind the big African RCTs</i>
* [http://www.healthpolicyinitiative.com/index.cfm?id=index Health Policy Initiative] by [[USAID]]
* [http://www.malecircumcision.org/about http://www.malecircumcision.org/about]
== 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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|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=2022-11-02
}}</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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|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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{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Circumcision and HIV]]