Tara KLamp scandal deepens

[HIV Ethics & Policy]

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From: Nathan Geffen <nathan...@gmail.com>
Date: 20 March 2012 07:33
Subject: [ACTIVIST] Tara KLamp scandal deepens
To: acti...@tac.org.za


Today, new details on the Tara KLamp scandal have been released. Thanks to TAC members in Kwazulu-Natal for their role in making this information available, as well as whistleblowers who wish to remain anonymous. Thanks also to the HIV Clinicians Society for taking a firm stance on this. If anyone has any further information on the Tara KLamp, please email me at nathan...@gmail.com or Marcus Low at low.m...@gmail.com. 

Two excerpts below:

* Health-e article which I understand is being published in today's Mercury and possibly other Independent newspapers.

* Quackdown article

KZN rolls out dodgy circumcision Klamp despite questions
20.03.2012 Anso Thom

HIV activists and senior doctors have called for an urgent investigation into the continued rollout of a controversial male circumcision device in KwaZulu-Natal.

The demand comes after the Treatment Action Campaign came into possession of evidence that included disturbing graphic images of injuries circumcised men contracted, allegedly after using the Tara KLamp, a device which is being rolled out in the province with the tacit support of the provincial government and the Zulu king Goodwill Zwelethini.

http://www.health-e.org.za/news/article.php?uid=20033478

This is an excerpt from an article published on Quackdown today:

The Tara KLamp scandal deepens

Premier Mkhize must be held accountable

By Nathan Geffen

Published: March 20, 2012, 6 a.m.

Today the Mercury published a story written by Anso Thom of Health-e exposing serious adverse events due to the Tara KLamp circumcision device. The photographs, which prove the seriousness of these adverse events, are published in this Quackdown article. The Mercury article also describes a draft research report that was commissioned by the Kwazulu-Natal government. The report describes possibly unethical behaviour.

http://www.quackdown.info/article/tara-klamp-scandal-deepens/

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