Use of rapid male circumcision tool will help Africa reach HIV prevention goals

Rwandan men are *more* likely to have HIV if they've been circumcised:

2.1% of intact Rwandan men have HIV
3.5% of circumcised Rwandan men have HIV

Other countries where circumcised men are *more* likely to be HIV+ are Cameroon, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, and Swaziland.  That's at least six African countries where men are more likely to be HIV+ if they've been circumcised, and yet they're promoting circumcision to prevent HIV.  What will it take to stop this madness?

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.

And for women: don't let a circumcised man have sex with you without a condom. Don't let him fool you into thinking he's immune from HIV.

If this thing is "non-surgical" then hitting you over the head is non-surgical anaesthesisia. It works the same way an Elastrator takes the tail or the goolies off a sheep.

"RMC is not a silver bullet but an extremely powerful tool when promoted in combination with other proven prevention strategies"

A traveller came to a farmhouse and offered to make the occupants Nail Soup in return for a night's shelter. He threw a large iron nail in a pot of boiling water and said: “The nail is not a magic bullet but an extremely powerful tool when used in combination with herbs, spices, vegetables, meat and other proven soup ingredients.” The farmer's wife accepted this, and in the morning the traveller went on his way, refreshed after a night in a comfortable bed, minus the Nail, with some gold coins in his pocket and the thanks of the family ringing in his ears for the wonderful Magic Nail that made such delicious Nail Soup.

Powerful? Less than two years after 5,400 men were circumcised, 64 of them had HIV while 73 others didn't, who MIGHT have if they had not been circumcised. That's not really very powerful.

When Agnes Binagwahois calls PrePex circumcision "rapid", she is referring only to the convenience of the circumcisers. That band, with your dying foreskin, is going to be there for a week. That has got to be sore.