Thomas C. Quinn
Thomas C. Quinn, M.D.[a 1], M.S.[a 2], is the Chief of the International HIV/STD Section of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases under Anthony Fauci. He previously was at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Quinn is an associate of circumcision promoters Aaron Tobian, Maria Wawer, and Ronald H. Gray. His duties include "development and evaluation of novel interventions to prevent HIV transmission, including microbicides, circumcision and vaccines."[1]
Publications
Quinn TC. Circumcision and HIV transmission. Curr Opin Infect Dis. February 2007; 20(1): 33-8. PMID. DOI. Retrieved 1 January 2022.- Gray RH, Kiwanuka N, Quinn TC, et al. Male circumcision and HIV acquisition and transmission: cohort studies in Rakai, Uganda. Rakai Project Team. AIDS. 20 October 2000; 14(15): 2371-81. PMID. DOI. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
Quote:The assessment of circumcision for HIV prevention is complex and requires randomized trials.
Population-based studies
September 2021 saw the publication of two huge population studies on the relationship of circumcision and HIV infection:
- Mayan et al. (2021) carried out a massive empirical study of the male population of the province of Ontario, Canada (569,950 males), of whom 203,588 (35.7%) were circumcised between 1991 and 2017. The study concluded that circumcision status is not related to risk of HIV infection.[2]
- Morten Frisch & Jacob Simonsen (2021) carried out a large scale empirical population study in Denmark of 855,654 males regarding the alleged value of male circumcision in preventing HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in men. They found that circumcised men have a higher rate of STI and HIV infection overall than intact men.[3]
No association between lack of circumcision and risk of HIV infection was found by either study. There now is credible evidence that the massive, expensive African circumcision programs have not been effective in preventing HIV infection.
Abbreviations
- ↑
Doctor of Medicine
, Wikipedia. Retrieved 14 June 2021. In the United Kingdom, Ireland and some Commonwealth countries, the abbreviation MD is common. - ↑
Master of Science
, Wikipedia. Retrieved 13 October 2021. (Latin: magisterii scientiae; also abbreviated MS, MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.)
References
- ↑ (10 January 2018).
Thomas C. Quinn, M.D., M.Sc.
, NIAID. Retrieved 1 January 2022. - ↑ Mayan M, Hamilton RJ, Juurlink DN, Austin PC, Jarvi KA. Circumcision and Risk of HIV Among Males From Ontario, Canada. J Urol. 23 September 2021; PMID. DOI. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
Quote:We found that circumcision was not independently associated with the risk of acquiring HIV among men from Ontario, Canada.
- ↑ Frisch M, Simonsen J. Non-therapeutic male circumcision in infancy or childhood and risk of human immunodeficiency virus and other sexually transmitted infections: national cohort study in Denmark. Eur J Epidemiol. 26 September 2021; 37: 251–9. PMID. DOI. Retrieved 16 January 2022.