A better circumcision tool

[SplitDik (imported)]

looks like it has do-it-yourself potential and comes in adult sizes:

http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/819788/-/vnlfkf/-/

Mr Gibon Ogada, 46, has every reason to smile. His son has just undergone a safe and painless circumcision.

Eleven-year-old Job Ochieng’ used a new sterilised tool, now in the pharmaceutical market.

“I looked for an option that involved no open wounds, and had a shorter healing period, so he could return to playing as soon as possible,” Mr Ogada told the Nation at the Kenya Bureau of Standards offices on Tuesday.

Gurcharan Singh

Mr Ogada should thank Dr Gurcharan Singh, who devoted 20 years of his life to the development of the Tara-Klamp.

Dr Gurcharan had earlier come face-to-face with young boys suffering from horrible infections because of poorly performed circumcisions. He travelled around the world searching for better circumcision methods.

He found none, and concluded that a cleaner, safer method of circumcision had to be developed. In 1996, when he won a Gold Medal in Geneva, the whole world took notice of his simpler, hygienic and efficient way of circumcision.

Circumcision is generally performed either in a surgical theatre, at home or as in Kenya, in the bush. But it often comes with problems — infections, accidental amputations of the glans penis, and bleeding among others. Most of these problems occur because in all the circumcision methods so far, the operation is of invasive type.

Tara-Klamp, a relatively inexpensive plastic circumcision device, is designed for non-hospital environments. It is a single use sterilised tool that comes in all sizes from infant to adult. It was invented in Malaysia.

It works by clamping off the foreskin where it meets the shaft of the penis.

The two arms or levers of the clamp are brought closer to the locking mechanisms on the tube until two clicks are heard to ascertain that the locking is secure.

No dressings are applied, and under petroleum jelly lubricants and anaesthetic only, the device is locked in place, crushing a ring of tissue as well as cutting off blood supply to the foreskin, which is then painlessly cut off. The Tara-Klamp is left on for four to seven days.

The method reduces cross infections of say, HIV between circumciser and the circumcised in cultural rites.

However, in case the size is incorrect, the tight grip could result to injuries to the clamped part. It costs about Sh1,200 exclusive of other services like anaesthesia, which could easily double or even triple the cost, depending on the clinic.

On Tuesday, the national standards regulator said the approval for its use in government hospitals was at the final stages; private clinics already use Tara-Klamp.

Its chief supplier in Kenya, Bradmon Healthcare Limited, says men are warming up to the procedure, with 100 so far circumcised, mainly in Nyanza and Western provinces.

Researchers say male circumcision reduces the risk of HIV infection by up to 60 per cent. So far, 60,000 Kenyans have been circumcised as part of HIV prevention.

The Kenya Aids Indicator Survey of 2007 puts the number of uncircumcised males aged 15-49 years at 1.2 million, with health officials estimating that for health impact in the prevention and control of HIV and Aids, at least 1.1 million of these people will have to be circumcised.

According to Mr Titus Oyoo, a Kebs officer, Tara-Klamp is undergoing final quality tests and is expected to be rolled out to public hospitals.

Common problems are prevented because the surgery is of non-invasive type, says Mr Charles Nyakure, a clinical officer who performs the procedure in his private clinic.

The procedure on Job was done on November 25, and the Tara-Klamp removed five days later, his father, Mr Ogada, said.

[HairyHarry (imported)]

One day the world will wake up and start to think for themselves.

Circumcision of minors is barbaric and totally wrong, unless for a real medical reason, which is rare. It does not prevent STDs, only behaviour does that. Make a stand for freedom from the mutilation of young boys, think for yourself, not from the superstitions of days gone by. Circumcision is done for one reason alone, to make masturbation and intercourse less satisfying, this is admitted by both Muslim and Jewish authorities. It used to be done to cure all kinds of illness, My penis was damaged to "cure" rheumatic fever! To cut a male baby so he looks like his father? How many American men have seen their father naked? I've never seen my father naked, though my son has seen me. My son is intact, no problems with it at all, ever.

Circumcision is, or should be, a thing of the past not the future. Anybody who is thinking of getting their foreskin cut off, or of getting someone else's cut off, should be sent to a sexual-health training centre. It is merely an anti-masturbation idea, dating from the 19th century when religious zealots denounced masturbation as a sin, and doctors readily used that notion to found a multi-million dollar industry. Nowadays we know that the foreskin is an important part of the whole penis, and not a useless flap left over from caveman times.

Africa will never be a modern prosperous and happy society until the people abandon the outdated religious and cultural rituals and ideas such as those described in the Daily Nation article.

[speedvogel (imported)]

I will not go into the pro or anti circumcision debate.

The Tara Klamp has been around for at least 15 years and seems to be a useful approach in environments where there is a lack of proper sanitation.

Speed

[Old Greebo (imported)]

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Mr Ogada should thank Dr Gurcharan Singh, who devoted 20 years of his life to the development of the Tara-Klamp.

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So why is it called the Tara-Klamp and not the Gurcharan-Singh-Klamp? Or clamp?

(ooh, the merit-marks are back!)

[Rusty Dai (imported)]

One day the world will wake up and start to think for themselves.

Circumcision of minors is barbaric and totally wrong, unless for a real medical reason, which is rare. It does not prevent STDs, only behaviour does that. Make a stand for freedom from the mutilation of young boys, think for yourself, not from the superstitions of days gone by. Circumcision is done for one reason alone, to make masturbation and intercourse less satisfying, this is admitted by both Muslim and Jewish authorities. It used to be done to cure all kinds of illness, My penis was damaged to "cure" rheumatic fever! To cut a male baby so he looks like his father? How many American men have seen their father naked? I've never seen my father naked, though my son has seen me. My son is intact, no problems with it at all, ever.

Circumcision is, or should be, a thing of the past not the future. Anybody who is thinking of getting their foreskin cut off, or of getting someone else's cut off, should be sent to a sexual-health training centre. It is merely an anti-masturbation idea, dating from the 19th century when religious zealots denounced masturbation as a sin, and doctors readily used that notion to found a multi-million dollar industry. Nowadays we know that the foreskin is an important part of the whole penis, and not a useless flap left over from caveman times.

Africa will never be a modern prosperous and happy society until the people abandon the outdated religious and cultural rituals and ideas such as those described in the Daily Nation article.

I agree. The guy wearing the penis should make his own decision. Can't happen if the foreskin is cut off without his consent as an infant. Same with his testicles, the guy wearing them should be able to make his own decision about castration.

[twaddler (imported)]

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when he won a Gold Medal in Geneva, the whole world took notice of his simpler, hygienic and efficient way of circumcision.

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Might competitive circumcision make an interesting Olympic sport? Almost certainly.

[sduyck_2000 (imported)]

must be fun carrying that hardware in your underwear for 5 days

till it falls off...just like banding a foreskin

[IbPervert (imported)]

Hey little boy are you happy to be hear, or is that a Tara-Klamp under your pants?

[Hash (imported)]

From the pg 2: "

Researchers say male circumcision reduces the risk of HIV infection by up to 60 per cent. So far, 60,000 Kenyans have been circumcised as part of HIV prevention.

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Circumcision reduces the chances of AIDS? I thought AIDS was transmitted through the exchange of bodily fluids? If that's true, then what difference does it make if you're circumcised or not? Sounds like the manufacturer is lying in order to sell this clamp. Wikepedia:

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

HIV is transmitted through direct contact of a mucous membrane or the bloodstream with a bodily fluid containing HIV, such as blood, semen, vaginal fluid, preseminal fluid, and breast milk.

This transmission can involve anal, vaginal or oral sex, blood transfusion, contaminated hypodermic needles, exchange between mother and baby during pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other exposure to one of the above bodily fluids.

[John (imported)]

Hello Friends!

As one of those guys who still have their balls hanging in the bag here I am a little different from most of the gang: I wear a CB-6000s which is a plastic lock-up cage for "MR littleman". It would in my world really be interesting to wear something else around that area and get the feeling of loosing the foreskin in this apparently simple manner. Would have been interesting if there was a film about the device. I mean, I don´t loose anything except for the access to my penis but really losing something would be in the same line as the story about those guys in the choir banding and so them selves to get rid of the balls.

Greetings

John