Delegates at the 19th International Aids conference in Washington, DC, in the United States this week were convinced the world was on the cusp of a major advance against HIV and that a medical device, known as the PrePex, could help 14 African countries, including South Africa, to speed up male circumcision to achieve a goal of circumcising 80% of men between the ages of 15 and 49 by 2015.
