(Nearly) Foolproof Circumcision Tool
Posted April 1st, 2008 by Alex Ion
Circumcision is a very debated method in the medical world. However a report from the World Health Organization comes in to support the fact that male circumcision could reduce female-to-male HIV transmission rates by 50 to 60 percent.
“Based on the evidence presented, which was considered to be compelling, experts attending the consultation recommended that male circumcision now be recognized as an additional important intervention to reduce the risk of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men,” the WHO report said.
Since lots of African men might overwhelm hospitals for a circumcision intervention and there aren’t enough specialized doctors to perform it, Physician David Tomlinson designed a “tool” to do the job.
He worked in his spare time with a team of collaborators from the Brown University and Clinical Innovations to develop a sterile device called AccuCirc (510k) which is almost foolproof.
Tomlinson got the idea of building it after performing circumcision on over 200 babies and noticed that almost every device existent right now, could harm.
AccuCirc can be used only once, protects the glans beneath the foreskin from injury and requires only minimal training. Here are some demo videos.
