Scientific American: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rwanda-investigating-adult-male-circumcision-without-anesthesia
Male circumcision has been widely promoted by the WHO and UNAIDS as a means of reducing HIV/AIDS transmission (SCTA 2011). The virus rates are high in sub-sahara africa, but there is a lack of medical infrastructure to preform circumcisions (SCTA 2011).
Rwanda is investigating a new type of circumcision, without the requirement of anesthesia. PRPEX is an elastic mechanism clamps around the penis foreskin clamping off the blood supply, allowing the foreskin to dry up are be removed about a week later (SCTA 2011). This procedure takes less than four minutes to complete, compared to the 20 mins the traditional methods require. It is estimated that 12 million men will recieve this producdure by the end of 2012 (SCTA 2011). In the initial testing of this product, the results look promising! However, with all new initiatives it still requires more testing (SCTA 2011).
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