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}}</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 name="millman2009" /> The mission was supposed to consult with the Rwandan healthcare system involved in the fight against AIDS,<ref name="millman2009" /> but Pollock took advantage of the trip to promote infant circumcision specifically.<ref name="millman2009" /> 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 name="millman2009" /> he took the opportunity to promote the [[Mogen]] infant circumcision procedure under the guise of "[[HIV ]] prevention."<ref name="millman2009" /><ref>{{REFnews

}}</ref> He took advantage of the AIDS crisis, and the fact that the [[WHO]]/[[UNAIDS]] had endorsed circumcision as legitimate [[HIV ]] prevention to promote specifically infant circumcision, and his "simple and painless procedure" (AKA, the [[Mogen]] technique).<ref>{{REFnews

}}</ref> Pollock admits that he hopes his "technique" would encourage more Rwandan parents to have their children circumcised, albeit for the pretext of [[HIV ]] prevention.<ref>{{REFnews

In 2014, Pollock claimed he was contacted by Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, professor at [the University of California, Los Angeles] Medical School, asking to train surgeons in Port-Au-Prince. Pollock started a fundraiser hoping to raise $25,000 to cover a one week trip to Port-Au-Prince, to train two surgeons, who will in turn train more surgeons once he leaves. This with the premise that circumcision can help reduce the risk of males contracting [[HIV ]] through heterosexual intercourse, a premise that has been subject to frequent criticism for lack of proven causal link and failure to show the intended results.

*[[Bias]] -- Motivations for circumcision bias.