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The [[Prepex]] device works by clamping the [[foreskin ]] so that it is starved for blood, dies and falls off. In two cases observed during testing in Kenya the necrotic foreskin interfered with [[urination]]. This can occur only when medical personnel use the Prepex device to do a [[circumcision ]] so it is appropriately classified as [[iatrogenic]]. The PrePex was withdrawn from the market in 2019. ==Circumcision does not prevent HIV infection==
=== Population-based studies ===
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===Two African surveys===
The previously reported studies were from developed Western nations. Now we have information from Sub_Saharan Africa.
French scientist [[Michel Garenne]], Ph.D. has published two reports in 2022 comparing the incidence of [[HIV ]] infection in [[circumcised]] and [[intact]] men.
In his first report, Garenne presented the findings from a study in Lesotho, the enclave in South Africa. He reported:
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