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|quote=In March or April of 2010, the Swazi Cabinet approved the current plan, which the U.S. government agreed to support.
|accessdate=2011-05-06
}}</ref> Since then, U.S. government personnel have worked to align [[PEPFAR]] resources in support of the national plan. The Government of Swaziland asked [[PEPFAR]] to support the national [[Adolescent_and_adult_circumcision| male circumcision]] plan as one of the "five pillars" of the Swaziland -— [[United States]] [[PEPFAR ]] Partnership Framework on [[HIV]]/[[AIDS]].<ref>{{REFnews
|last=Mazzotta
|first=Meredith
|date=2011-03-04
|publisher=Science Speaks: HIV & TB News
|quote=The Government of Swaziland asked [[PEPFAR ]] to support the national MC plan as one of the five ‘pillars’ of our “Swaziland – United States [[PEPFAR ]] Partnership Framework on [[HIV]]/[[AIDS]].”
|accessdate=2011-05-06
}}</ref>
In March 22, 2011, the U.S. government officially handed over a wide range of materials in support of the USDF’s efforts to combat [[HIV]]/[[AIDS]], which included 7 prefabricated medical facilities supporting the Soka Uncobe male circumcision campaign. In all, the materials handed over at the ceremony and those that will be arriving in the future are valued at over E 12.5 million. Representing the [[United States]] Government were Charge d’Affaires Craig Cloud, joined by Dr. Anne Thomas of the U.S. Department of the Defense, and in a speech given by Cloud, it was noted that "if the Soka Uncobe campaign is successful in circumcising 152,000 men during 2011, it could prevent 88,000 people from getting infected with [[HIV]] and save the government and the people of Swaziland E 4.5 billion in medical treatment costs."<ref>{{REFnews
|last=Press Release
|first=
}}</ref>
Solomon Mndzebele, a caregiver under Red Cross, made a personal plea to the ministry Ministry of health Health to remove the advertizements advertisements because they were making making his job to promote condom use difficult.<ref>{{REFnews
|last=Ndlangamandla
|first=Nelsiwe
|accessdate=2011-05-13
}}</ref> According to Mndzebele, "When you tell people about condoms they would just tell you that they would circumcise and by then they would have conquered [[HIV]] [[AIDS]]."
 
==Circumcision does not prevent HIV infection==
=== Population-based studies ===
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