Rakai health sciences program formerly the Rakai project has unveiled a new method of male circumcision in which one does not shed a single drop of blood.
The program chief investigator Godfrey Kigozi said that although the method was still in its early stages, they have already got a positive response and support from the public.
"The method is called Prepex and it was invented in the United States of America. We have so far tested it on about 50 clients but we need 250 more to confirm its acceptability but so far it has worked properly with those who used it," Kigozi said.
He explained that the only challenges it was facing included some pain experienced during the removal of the ring at the end of the operation after six days and the bad smell it produced from four to six days of operation.
"But the pain is short lived and we are working round the clock to find means of relinquishing it completely," Kigozi told New Vision in an interview adding that the smell would be done away with by finding means of dealing with enzymes that come with a dead skin. He also warned of a big danger in case a client attempted to remove the ring himself.
He said that many men were afraid of going for circumcision because they feared experiencing pain during injections, cutting off the foreskin and looking at blood flowing from their private parts.
"With this new method, the pain is very minimal, there is no injection administered and no blood would be lost during the process," he said adding that when the method is opened for the public after the research, more men were expected to go for circumcision.
Dr. James Nkale Menya the project supervisor explained that Prepex was much easier and cheaper to use if compared to other methods of circumcision. "We place a gadget fitting on a man's penis not erected, turn the foreskin on to it and place a rubber band on the over turned foreskin to block supply of blood. Another gadget is again placed on top and the client is left to go but he must return after six days to remove everything," Nkale said.
This procedure according to Nkale dies not require an operation theater like the case with other methods including the shangring and it is none surgical. He said that once the process is started, the client would not change his mind until the end of the six days when he would return to the health worker to remove the gadgets placed on his penis.
"After the six days, the health worker would remove the gadgets and the over turned foreskin which would be dry by then will fall off automatically. The client will walk away but would not engage himself in sexual activities for the next three weeks," he said.
However, Nkale said that there were men whose penises are too small or too big to fit in the available gadgets used in this method and to such people, it would not be applicable meaning that they would be going in for the other methods.
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Making it a taboo to compare male with female sexual mutilation is the biggest scandal of the controversy. In both instances the most sensitive and most erogenous zone of the human body is amputated and severely damaged. In both instances, what counts primarily is the cutting of human sexuality. The imposition of control by the patriarchy.
What is lacking in all the talk about circumcision is discussion of its archeological dimension - that it is the left over of human sacrifice. What kind of god is it that asks a people to sacrifice? Or a people who create such a god for themselves?
Also, unfortunately it is / has been circumcision that has MADE for no end of anti-semitic sentiments. Freud found that it was the chief reason for unconscious anti-Semitism. And the myths surrounding it are at the core of the “blood libel.” Thus, it's time to eliminate the Brit Milah because if that is the chief reason for being anti-Semitic or anti-Abrahamic [Islam too practices the rite] then why hang on to this left-over of human sacrifice? that traumatizesthe child, cutting off 5,000 nerves, that is the equivalent of female circumcision in the sense that it eliminates everything but the clitoris,and only serves the UltraOrthodox to maintain their power? After all, reform Judaism sought to eliminate the rite in the 19th century, and Jewish identity depends on being born by a Jewish mother, or converting. Here a link to an archive of the entire German and then some debate, note especially Michael Wolffsohn's two pieces . Circumcision has been controversial also within Jewry forever. http://analytic-comments.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-circumcision-debate-links -and.html
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Clamping may be a "safe" way to amputate a man's foreskin, but such a man is not "safe" by any stretch. Wawer/Gray reported in a 2009 study that the Ugandan men they circumcised infected their female partners with deadly HIV 50% MORE often than the men they left intact did.
Until this finding is confirmed or refuted it is VERY irresponsible to thrust forward with mass circumcision campaigns.
First lie in this article: No, the PrePex is NOT an American, but an ISRAELI invention. The PrePex was invented by Israeli researchers Oren Fuerst, Ido Kilemnick, and Shaul Shohat. WHY is Mr. Kigozi marketing the PrePex device as an American invention? Is this what his donors told him to say?
Africans need to ask deeper questions. Circumcision methods abound, but the ultimate million dollar question is DOES IT PREVENT HIV?
It fails 40% of the time, even according to the well-touted 60% line. I'm sure after enough proding, even Mr. Kigozi will have to admit that circumcision is worthless, and ultimately, even circumcised men will have to wear condoms.
Remember, according to Sorrells et al, circumcision removes the most sensitive part of the penis. Whether the method of removal is bloody or "bloodless," painful or "painless" is of no difference to me.
If I am faithful to my wife, and take the necessary precautions, then circumcision, and any device that helps facilitate it is basically pointless, isn't it?
Good luck convincing everyone else to mutilate their organs, Kigozi. I'm not buying it.