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In reply to the discussion: My review of Men's groups on the internets. [View all]Cerridwen
(13,262 posts)40. They live in a...special world there. "(Hillary)Clinton determined to push 28 million circumcisions"
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Clinton determined to push 28 million circumcisions
August 19, 2012 By Robert O'Hara 56 Comments
Secretary of States Africa tour to promote male genital mutilation; U.S. news media is silent
(AVFM News Sunday August 19, Washington D.C.) On Wednesday, August 15th,at 11:00am U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah, Counselor Sheryl Mills, United States Global AIDS Coordinator Ambassador Eric Goosby, and Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Thomas Frieden, at the Department of State. The meeting was closed to the press and the assortment of individuals representing this combination of agencies is unusual for a State Department hearing as the CDC normally does not concern itself with international political affairs. However, given the recent activities of the Secretary Clinton in the past several weeks opponents of Male Genital Mutilation would have reason to be concerned with developments that could result from this meeting.
Last Friday, August 10th, Secretary Clinton wrapped up a tour of Sub Saharan Africa in Ghana which began on the 31st of last month in Senegal traveling through South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, South Africa and Malawi. The State Departments Press release only mentioned U.S. efforts to deal with the AIDS epidemic in Africa once and never mentioned Male Circumcision. The trip was not extensively covered by the national media with the Washington Post releasing only one article outlining her journey and providing whimsical reports of dancing with native women, dodging swarms of bees and braving a deadly outbreak of Ebola. As in the State departments press release, male circumcision as a means to stop the spread of AIDS was never once mentioned.
Indeed, not one major U.S. news source has covered what is perhaps the biggest initiative ever to halt the spread of HIV AIDS; an initiative being spearheaded by the World Health Organization, the U.N. and the U.S. government.
As reported previously by AVFM News (see previous articles listed below) the W.H.O. in concert with the U.N., the World Bank, the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and several other very well funded and influential N.G.Os are funding, supporting and administering a multinational effort to circumcise over 28 million men in Sub Saharan Africa by 2015. This initiative has gained the overwhelming support of the State Department as well as the U.N. in spite of mounting evidence that the RCTs (randomized controlled trials) performed in 2005 in Africa, which concluded that men who underwent circumcision were 60% less likely to contract HIV, were seriously flawed and administered largely by unqualified individuals with both financial and ideological conflicts of interest.
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August 19, 2012 By Robert O'Hara 56 Comments
Secretary of States Africa tour to promote male genital mutilation; U.S. news media is silent
(AVFM News Sunday August 19, Washington D.C.) On Wednesday, August 15th,at 11:00am U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah, Counselor Sheryl Mills, United States Global AIDS Coordinator Ambassador Eric Goosby, and Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Thomas Frieden, at the Department of State. The meeting was closed to the press and the assortment of individuals representing this combination of agencies is unusual for a State Department hearing as the CDC normally does not concern itself with international political affairs. However, given the recent activities of the Secretary Clinton in the past several weeks opponents of Male Genital Mutilation would have reason to be concerned with developments that could result from this meeting.
Last Friday, August 10th, Secretary Clinton wrapped up a tour of Sub Saharan Africa in Ghana which began on the 31st of last month in Senegal traveling through South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, South Africa and Malawi. The State Departments Press release only mentioned U.S. efforts to deal with the AIDS epidemic in Africa once and never mentioned Male Circumcision. The trip was not extensively covered by the national media with the Washington Post releasing only one article outlining her journey and providing whimsical reports of dancing with native women, dodging swarms of bees and braving a deadly outbreak of Ebola. As in the State departments press release, male circumcision as a means to stop the spread of AIDS was never once mentioned.
Indeed, not one major U.S. news source has covered what is perhaps the biggest initiative ever to halt the spread of HIV AIDS; an initiative being spearheaded by the World Health Organization, the U.N. and the U.S. government.
As reported previously by AVFM News (see previous articles listed below) the W.H.O. in concert with the U.N., the World Bank, the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and several other very well funded and influential N.G.Os are funding, supporting and administering a multinational effort to circumcise over 28 million men in Sub Saharan Africa by 2015. This initiative has gained the overwhelming support of the State Department as well as the U.N. in spite of mounting evidence that the RCTs (randomized controlled trials) performed in 2005 in Africa, which concluded that men who underwent circumcision were 60% less likely to contract HIV, were seriously flawed and administered largely by unqualified individuals with both financial and ideological conflicts of interest.
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They live in a...special world there. "(Hillary)Clinton determined to push 28 million circumcisions"
Cerridwen
May 2015
#40
For the ERA and critical of Hillary? With the exception of ERA support that sounds like DU. n/t
lumberjack_jeff
May 2015
#67
you plod thru the stinkiest of the net, to better inform all us. more man than i am, lol. nt
seabeyond
May 2015
#15
I think that by and large these groups consist of men who have never been able to get past
Sheldon Cooper
May 2015
#19
Yes, I think that tends to piss a lot of men off... They can't handle that they're not well...
underahedgerow
May 2015
#119
excellent. that is how i assumed it would work. i was personally, proved wrong. nt
seabeyond
May 2015
#22
I agree that MaggieD's statement is a broadbrush, but as a female sports fan,
ScreamingMeemie
May 2015
#28
doesnt that just floor you when out of the blue you get racism thrown in your face....
seabeyond
May 2015
#41
Whenever I am around someone who slips into such racism because he/she assumes it's
tblue37
May 2015
#53
again, if you look at our male comdeians, .... our entertainment for men. i do not think it is,
seabeyond
May 2015
#42
But you are assuming that the people posting are representative of the "average white mind"
FLPanhandle
May 2015
#36
As a man, I have no idea why I would want to participate in a "Men's Group"
FLPanhandle
May 2015
#30
There *are* legitimate Men's groups, as opposed to the designated hate groups that are MRAs
ismnotwasm
May 2015
#38
I was replying to your general 'why do men need a forum' question, the way I understood it.
polly7
May 2015
#83
Yeah haha, I started writing and went on a tangent. You're right about needing a comfortable place
LittleBlue
May 2015
#89
Did you retire? You've been spending a lot of time on quite the odd combination of web sites.
madinmaryland
May 2015
#57
The concept of "White Knight" while overused by MRAs is not an inaccurate depiction of the psychology
Bonobo
May 2015
#97
gonna check this one out in the morning. i saw another when i googled at the suggestion of someone
seabeyond
May 2015
#99
i dunno. when the fruit start rotting, they merely drop from the tree, right? nt
seabeyond
May 2015
#118
They should be classified as hate groups, no different than white supremacists. nt
BreakfastClub
May 2015
#127