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== Project abandoned in 2019 ==
Kenya officially adopted the device [...] in 2016 to expand safe circumcision methods. However, the uptake has been sluggish. The manufacturer says it has abandoned the project and is now offloading it to interested buyers. <q>Circ Medtech, the PrePex manufacturer, was unable to remove unreasonable [[WHO]]-imposed restrictions which have materially disadvantaged the product as compared to other circumcision methods for several years now", company CEO Eddy Horowitz said.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2019-07-04-bloodless-painless-circumcision-device-abandoned/
|title='Bloodless painless' circumcision device abandoned
The PrePex was withdrawn from the market in 2019.
==Circumcision does not prevent HIV infection==
=== Population-based studies ===