Sounds like a potentially good solution to lowering the AIDS rate in many poor countries. Fewer complications are an added bonus for this project that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is supporting. China produced some excellent solutions to problems that impact many poor countries and this sounds like their latest easy but good solution.
The most powerful force against AIDS in Africa may be circumcision, a procedure that's easily done in the developed world. But it's a challenge on a continent where there are too few medical workers and a reluctance by men for cultural reasons and fear of pain.
Now there may be a new weapon in the arsenal — a ring-shaped device that is mostly painless and requires less time for health workers.
The Chinese-developed device, the ShangRing, has been tested in a small study in Kenya and a larger test is set for later this year. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will invest about $4 million into studying the device.
