Christina Wang, Maria Cristina Meriggiola, John K Amory, Christopher L R Barratt, Hermann M Behre, William J Bremner, Alberto Ferlin, Stanton Honig, Zsolt Kopa, Kirk Lo, Eberhard Nieschlag, Stephanie T Page, Jay Sandlow, Regine Sitruk-Ware, Ronald S Swerdloff, Frederick C W Wu, Dimitrios G Goulis
BACKGROUNDS: Despite a wide spectrum of contraceptive methods for women, the unintended pregnancy rate remains high (45% in the US), with 50% resulting in abortion. Currently, 20% of global contraceptive use is male-directed, with a wide variation among countries due to limited availability and lack of efficacy. Worldwide studies indicate that >50% of men would opt to use a reversible method, and 90% of women would rely on their partner to use a contraceptive. Additional reasons for novel male contraceptive methods to be available include the increased life expectancy, sharing the reproductive risks among partners, social issues, the lack of pharma industry involvement and the lack of opinion makers advocating for male contraception...
September 20, 2023: Andrology