South Africa: Murky dealings in circumcision KLamp tender

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'The decision by the KwaZulu-Natal health department to award a tender for the supply of a controversial circumcision device, the Tara KLamp, has been obscured by a cloud of mystery.

The department, the supplier, a rival supplier and the device's inventor remain tight-lipped about how and why the health department procured the device.

The Mail & Guardian reported in June that the Malaysian-made KLamp had been flagged as unsafe by independent experts in 2004, that no further randomised control trials (RCTs) on the device had since been conducted and that the device was not approved by the World Health Organisation.'