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Israeli Device to Begin Circumcising 700,000 Rwandans in HIV/AIDS Prevention

The World Health Organization approved an Israeli-developed non-surgical device to begin circumcising the adult male population of Rwanda to help control HIV/AIDS.

By Avner Meyrav, NoCamels

 

 

Circumcising the entire adult male population of Rwanda, a country of over 11 million people of which three percent is HIV positive, would seem an impossible – and rather painful – task to most. But Israeli technology is once again proving it can beat the odds, with a breakthrough medical device that allows performing the procedure on a mass scale, with no incisions, bleeding, or anesthesia.

prepex Breakthrough Israeli Device Will Circumcise 700,000 Rwandans To Prevent HIV/AIDS

The PrePex

 

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