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Response number: 14

Responder: Treatment Action Campaign

Date of response: Feb. 11, 2010

Type of response: Media article

Claims dealt with in this response

Claim no 10: Carpe Diem Enterprises Safe Circumcision made on 2010-06-20 - Tests showed this is unsafe

Description

TAC published their investigation of the Tara KLamp at:
http://www.tac.org.za/community/node/2960

The story received wide coverage.

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