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The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation actively promote male circumcision as "''HIV prevention''",<ref name='circ-search'> {{cite web REFweb | last=Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | first= | year= | title=Search Results: Circumcision | url = http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/Search.aspx?term=circumcision | title = Search Results: Circumcision | accessdate = 2011-03-24 | work = Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation}}</ref> traveling to Africa to promote it.<ref name='circ-africa-search'> {{cite web REFweb | last=Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | first= | year= | title=Search Results: Circumcision Africa | url = http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/Search.aspx?term=Circumcision%20Africa | title = Search Results: Circumcision Africa | accessdate = 2011-03-24 | work = Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation}}</ref> [[Bill Gates]] was convinced to promote circumcision by [[Bertran Auvert]].<ref name='gates-saving-the-world'> {{cite web REFwebQuote | quote=How do you address global hunger, epidemics, and poverty? According to Bill Gates, it takes R&D, software, and plenty of money. | last=Lyons | first=Daniel | publisher= | year=2010-01-25 | urltitle=Saving The World 2.0 | url = http://www.newsweek.com/2010/01/24/saving-the-world-2-0.html | title = Saving The World 2.0 | accessdate = 2011-03-24 | last = Lyons | first = Daniel | date = 2010-01-25 | work = Newsweek | quote = How do you address global hunger, epidemics, and poverty? According to Bill Gates, it takes R&D, software, and plenty of money.}}</ref>

According to a report in the Seattle Times, the Gates Foundation has become a force in journalism, and contributes millions of dollars to nonprofit and for-profit media to help cover issues of interest to the foundation. Not just MSNBC, but also ABC, NPR, PBS, and Public Radio, as well as others. Many worry that its growing support of media organizations blur the line between journalism and advocacy.<ref>{{cite newsREFnews | first last= SandiDoughton | last first= DoughtonSandi | coauthors = Kristi Heim | title = Does Gates funding of media taint objectivity? | date = 2011-02-19 | url = http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014280379_gatesmedia.html | work title= The Seattle TimesDoes Gates funding of media taint objectivity? | accessdate date= 2011-02-2219 | publisher=The Seattle Times | quote = Better-known for its battles against global disease, the Gates Foundation has also become a force in journalism. The foundation's contributions to nonprofit and for-profit media have helped spur coverage of global health, development and education issues. But some people worry that its growing support of media organizations blurs the line between journalism and advocacy. | accessdate=2011-02-22

This seems to apply particularly to some of the Foundation flag programs, such as the Voluntary Male Circumcision initiatives for Africa, where according to a journalist, "as a government policy, it appears circumcision is reluctantly promoted by some MPs because other health-related and donor-funded initiatives are tied to this programme."<ref>{{cite news | first = RASHWEAT REFnews | last = MUKUNDUMukundu | title first= Zimbabwe: Will Circumcision Change Behaviour or Reinforce Machismo?Rashweat | date coauthors= 2012-10-01 | url = http://allafrica.com/stories/201210011022.html | work title= All AfricaZimbabwe: Will Circumcision Change Behaviour or Reinforce Machismo? | accessdate date= 2012-10-0201 | publisher=All Africa | quote = As a government policy, it appears circumcision is reluctantly promoted by some MPs because other health-related and donor-funded initiatives are tied to this programme. | accessdate=2012-10-02

 An article "Circumcision does not affect HIV in U.S. men" disappeared from MSN <REFref>{{cite newsREFnews | last=MSNBC | first= | title coauthors= Circumcision does not affect HIV in U.S. men | url = http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22096758/#.UGuqPZjR7Sh | work title=Circumcision does not affect HIV in U.S. men | date= MSNBC | accessdate publisher= 2012-10-02 | quote = Text: We're sorry. The text content of this page is no longer available.

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The same article (or an article with the same title) is still available in Reuters<REFref>{{cite news | first = MaggieREFnews | last = Fox | title first= Circumcision does not affect HIV in U.S. menMaggie | date coauthors= 2009-12-04 | url = http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/12/04/us-aids-circumcision-idUSN0345545120071204 | work title= MSNBCCircumcision does not affect HIV in U.S. men | accessdate date= 20122009-1012-0204 | publisher=MSNBC | quote = Black and Latino men were just as likely to become infected with the AIDS virus whether they were circumcised or not, Greg Millett of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found.

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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>{{cite news | title = Scientists discover natural barrier to HIV | url = http://healthyliving.msn.com/?cp-documentid=100157237#scpti2 | work = MSNBC | accessdate = 2012-10-02 | quote = }}</REF> Screenshot <REF>Archive (2012-10-02): http://www.circleaks.org/index.php?title=File:Langerin.pdf</REF> However, again the information is still available in other places:<REF>{{cite news | first = E. J.REFnews | last = Mundell | date first= 2007-03-05E. J. | title coauthors= Scientists discover natural barrier to HIV | url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/05/AR2007030500357.html | work title= Washington PostScientists discover natural barrier to HIV | accessdate date= 20122007-1003-0205 | publisher=Washington Post | quote = Researchers have discovered that cells in the mucosal lining of human genitalia produce a protein that "eats up" invading HIV -- possibly keeping the spread of the AIDS more contained than it might otherwise be.

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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">{{Cite journal REFjournal | last1 last= Kawamura | first1 first= T. | last2 coauthors= Kurtz| first2 = SE.| last3 = , Blauvelt| first3 = A.| last4 = , ShimadaS. | first4 pubyear= S2005, Dec. | title = The role of Langerhans cells in the sexual transmission of HIV. | journal = J Dermatol Sci | volume = 40 | issue = 3 | pages = 147-55 | month url= Dec | year accessdate= 2005

}}</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">{{Cite journal REFjournal | last1 last= de Witte | first1 first= L. | last2 coauthors= Nabatov| first2 = A.| last3 = , Pion| first3 = M.| last4 = , Fluitsma| first4 = D.| last5 = , de Jong| first5 = MA.| last6 = , de Gruijl| first6 = T.| last7 = , Piguet| first7 = V.| last8 = , van Kooyk| first8 = Y.| last9 = , GeijtenbeekTB. | first9 pubyear= TB.2007, March | title = Langerin is a natural barrier to HIV-1 transmission by Langerhans cells. | journal = Nat Med | volume = 13 | issue = 3 | pages = 367-71 | month url= Mar | year accessdate= 2007

{{Quote boxCitation |title Title= <small>Circumcision Studies</small>is...| Text=...cheap, effective, and easy to apply |quote Author= [[Bertran AuvertBill Gates]], is so modest about his work, but he has new theories that we're putting money behind and he is just making it work. |source Source=Reuters| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation=| ref= <smallref>--Bill Gates. [http://www.newsweekreuters.com/article/2010/0107/2419/saving-theus-worldaids-2efficiency-0.html LyonsidUSTRE66I2MZ20100719 Kelland, DK. (2010, January 10July 19). Saving the world, 2.0Bill Clinton & Bill Gates want value for money in AIDS fight. ''NewsweekReuters.'']</smallref> |align = left |width = 45% |quoted = yes

Holy Water Healing.<ref name='holy-water-healing'> {{cite web REFwebQuote | quote=Can science and faith work together to fight HIV and tuberculosis? | last= | first= | publisher=Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | year= | urltitle=Holy Water Healing | url = http://www.gatesfoundation.org/videos/Pages/default.aspx#video=/livingproofproject/Pages/holy-water-healing.aspx&pager=0&filter=&autostart=true | title = Holy Water Healing | accessdate = 2011-03-24 | work = Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | quote = Can science and faith work together to fight HIV and tuberculosis?}}</ref>

Crying Baby Symphony. <ref>{{cite web REFweb | last=Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | first= | year= | title=Crying Baby Symphony | url = http://www.gatesfoundation.org/videos/Pages/default.aspx#video=/vaccines/Pages/crying-baby-symphony.aspx&pager=0&filter=&autostart=true | title = Crying Baby Symphony | accessdate = 2011-06-27 | work = Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation}}</ref>