Circumcision

Australian Circumcision Team Flying to Botswana

Queensland's Dr Terry Russell and Melbourne's Professor Roger Short will be flying to Botswana in September (2004) to discuss the use of circumcision as a preventive measure against AIDS and to demonstrate the use of Plastibell at a conference in the capital, Gabarone. The conference is being organised by Maxwell Nhlatho, a Botswanan Medical Student at the University of Melbourne.

Hollister Incorporated manufactures and markets the Plastibell device (illustrated and further described below) which provides a simple, scalpel-free method for circumcision. This device has been used to circumcise over 20 million people over the past 46 years and the device has an unsurpassed record of safe and effective use. Hollister is supporting the Botswana initiative by providing free samples of the Plastibell devices.

For further information about the Plastibell device you can contact Hollister yourself.
Its email address is plastibell@hollister.com

Hollister Plastibell

Hollister makes the Plastibell, which is a plastic bell with a groove close to the edge. It is a disposable plastic device. The bell is inserted into the preputial cavity (over the glans, and under the foreskin) and the foreskin (prepuce) is tied around it with a tight string. Blood flow to the prepuce is ceased, and the prepuce forward of the string is cut off. After several days, the prepuce caught under the string necrotizes and falls off, providing a bloodless circumcision, with no open wound to become irritated or infected.