{UAH} South Africans want to boycott penis clamps -- because Gaza

South Africans want to boycott penis clamps — because Gaza

Written by: amrwaga on 16th August 2014

By Erin Conway-Smith Global Post News August 16th 2014

A non-surgical circumcision device called Prepex — two plastic rings and an elastic band — is being used in several African nations to encourage circumcision and cut HIV infection rates. (Isaac Kasamani/AFP/Getty Images)

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The little plastic device seemed ideal for South Africa's campaign to reduce HIV rates through medical circumcision — safe, inexpensive, nearly painless, and non-surgical. You put it on, the elastic shuts off the flow of blood to the foreskin, and the foreskin dies on its own, removed after a week. Only problem: it's made in Israel.

Whenever the Israeli-Palestinian conflict flares, it echoes in distant South Africa. And as the warring parties negotiate amid a five-day truce marred early on by rockets and airstrikes, the PrePex male circumcision ring is one of many products in South Africa being targeted by growing calls to boycott Israeli-made goods.

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