Lack of resources, leadership hindering male circumcision campaign in Uganda, PlusNews reports

Many professionals have criticized the studies claiming that circumcision reduces HIV transmission. They have various flaws. Authorities that cite the studies have other agendas. Circumcision causes physical, sexual, and psychological harm. Other methods to prevent HIV transmission (e.g., condoms and sterilizing medical instruments) are much more effective, much cheaper, and much less invasive.

Circumcision to prevent HIV/AIDS does not make sense. Circumcised men still have to use a condom just like intact (uncircumcised) men. The best way to prevent HIV is through education about safe sex, not surgery. Don't let them fool you into getting circumcised - you'll still have to wear a condom every time.

In 2009, WHO researchers Wawer/Gray reported that the Ugandan men they circumcised were 50% MORE likely to infect their female partners with deadly HIV than the men they left intact were.  

Most of the US men who have died of AIDS were circumcised at birth.  

If anything is "hindering" the progress of circumcision in Uganda it is probably the facts about HIV and about the pleasure of having intact genitals.  

Kaiser-Permanente is the first for-profit hospital in the United States.  Dr. Edgar Schoen was Chief of Pediatrics at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland for 24 years.  He has written many books singing the praises of circumcision.
Dr. David Tomlinson serves as the World Health Organization's chief expert on circumcision. He invented the "improved" Gomco, the "improved" Plastibell and the "improved" Accu-circ. He very likely receives money for every one of the devices sold. There is an inherent conflict of interest there. Dr. Daniel Halperin, who conducted one of the 3 studies in South Africa which claimed such fantastic statistics, is not a medical doctor. His PhD is in Anthropology and Latin American Studies. He was not medically qualified to conduct the study. Dr. Halperin is on record saying he wants to make his grandfather, a ritual circumciser, proud.
In the US, we have buried close to a million mostly circumcised men, who died from AIDS.  Nobody says that simply being circumcised is enough to prevent the spread of HIV.  You still have to wear a condom.  If you have to wear a condom to be safe, why get circumcised?  It typically removes half the skin of the male genitals.
Condoms, unlike circumcision, protect both partners.

Dr. Gray, with his cohort, Dr. Tobian don't have a lot of credibility in the US.  They keep insinuating that circumcision is a vaccine for HIV.  Everybody knows it is not.  They are two circumcised guys, trying to create a medical justification for circumcision, which doesn't exist.

Doctors have been doing this in the US since 1870.

Circumcision has cured everything from paralysis, to epilepsy. Later, it was cervical cancer, and penile cancer.

All of these have been disproven.  Now, it is on to the bigger scare, HIV.  These doctors ignore the facts.  Some facts they ignore are, the French and Danes don't circumcise, yet their infection rates are 1/10 those of the US, which has one of the highest circumcision rates in the world.  How does Gray account for that?  He doesn't.  New Zealanders no longer circumcise.  They enjoy one of the lowest HIV infection rates in the world.  Dr. Gray does not talk about that.
In my opinion, Dr. Gray is a cutter, looking for a reason.

American doctors are less likely to be sued, while quot;helping" Ugandans, than they are if they were doing the same thing in the US.