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}}</ref> from Vancouver, Canada, whose sole livelihood comes from performing infant circumcision and vasectomy.<refname="pollock2011">{{REFweb

}}</ref> He is a prolific circumciser of infants, and according to his website, he has performed over 30,000 infant circumcisions,<ref>{{REFweb |quotename=As of January 2011, Dr. Pollock has safely performed well over 30,000 infant circumcisions. |url=http:"pollock2011" //www.pollockclinics.com/circumcision/circumcision-drpollock.html |title=About Dr. Pollock |last= |first= |publisher= |website= |date=2011-04-08 |accessdate=}}</ref> he performs 2,500 annually,<ref>{{REFweb |quote=Currently he performs approximately 2500 annually at his two private offices. |urlname=http://www.pollockclinics.com/circumcision"pollock2011" /circumcision-drpollock.html |title=About Dr. Pollock |last= |first= |publisher= |website= |date= |accessdate=2011-04-08}}</ref> and he is personally responsible for 2/3rds of all circumcisions in the entire Vancouver Lower Mainland.<ref>{{REFweb |quote=He personally performs over 2/3rds of all circumcisions in the entire Vancouver Lower Mainland. |url=http://www.pollockclinics.com/circumcision/circumcision-index.html |title=Pollock Clinics Infant Circumcision |last= |first= |publisher= |websitename= |date=2011-04-08 |accessdate=2011-04-08}}<"pollock2011" /ref>

On Feb 24, 2009, Pollock Clinics issued a press release stating that Neil Pollock was asked to go to Rwanda by the British Columbia Centere for Disease Control (BCCDC) and Family Health International (FHI),<refname="millman2009">{{REFnews

}}</ref> as part of a team on a "fact finding mission." He was asked by David Patrick, then Head of Epidemiology at the BCCDC.<ref>{{REFnews |lastname=Millman |first=N. Michael |url=http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/BC-Surgeon-Joins-Fight-Against-Sub-Saharan-Aids-953409.htm |title=BC Surgeon Joins Fight Against Sub-Saharan Aids |publisher= |website=marketwire |quote=Dr. Pollock decided to travel to the region after he was asked by Dr. David Patrick, Head of Epidemiology at the BCCDC, to join their fact-finding mission to the rapidly developing country. |date=2009-02-24 |accessdate=2011-04-10}}<"millman2009" /ref> The mission was supposed to consult with the Rwandan healthcare system involved in the fight against AIDS,<ref>{{REFnews |lastname=Millman |first=N. Michael |url=http://www.marketwire.com"millman2009" /press-release/BC-Surgeon-Joins-Fight-Against-Sub-Saharan-Aids-953409.htm |title=BC Surgeon Joins Fight Against Sub-Saharan Aids |publisher= |website=marketwire |quote=The mission was a team effort to consult widely with everyone in the Rwandan health care system involved in the fight against AIDS (from major players in the Ministry of Health, to front-line workers, to people living with HIV). |date=2009-02-24 |accessdate=2011-04-10}}</ref> but Pollock took advantage of the trip to promote infant circumcision specifically.<ref>{{REFnews |lastname=Millman |first=N. Michael |url=http://www.marketwire.com/press-release"millman2009" /BC-Surgeon-Joins-Fight-Against-Sub-Saharan-Aids-953409.htm |title=BC Surgeon Joins Fight Against Sub-Saharan Aids |publisher= |website=marketwire |quote=In anticipation of his trip, Dr. Pollock contacted Rwandan doctors and inquired as to why, given the correlation between circumcision and AIDS prevention, and the increasing number of adult circumcisions being carried out, so few infant circumcisions were being performed in that country. |date=2009-02-24 |accessdate=2011-04-10}}</ref> Upon being told that few parents were having their children circumcised because the procedures were being performed with scissors and stitches, without adequate anaesthetic and were taking around 30 minutes to complete,<ref>{{REFnews |lastname=Millman |first=N. Michael |url=http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/BC-Surgeon-Joins-Fight-Against-Sub-Saharan-Aids-953409.htm |title=BC Surgeon Joins Fight Against Sub-Saharan Aids |publisher= |website=marketwire |quote=They told me that very few parents were having their children circumcised because the procedures were being performed with scissors and stitches, without adequate anaesthetic and were taking around 30 minutes to complete... |date=2009-02-24 |accessdate=2011-04-10}}<"millman2009" /ref> he took the opportunity to promote the [[Mogen]] infant circumcision procedure under the guise of "HIV prevention."<ref name="millman2009" /><ref>{{REFnews