{"id":1818,"date":"2003-10-06T04:40:25","date_gmt":"2003-10-06T18:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/06\/male-contraceptive-on-the-way\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T09:26:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:26:07","slug":"male-contraceptive-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/06\/male-contraceptive-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Male contraceptive on the way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13170,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/1\\\/hi\\\/health\\\/3167090.stm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20210309125744\\\/http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/1\\\/hi\\\/health\\\/3167090.stm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 07:19:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 01:29:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 01:29:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>With a few more years of testing and study, it appears that may finally be <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/3167090.stm\" title=\"Male contraceptive '100% effective'\">an effective male contraceptive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Scientists have developed a male contraceptive which was 100% effective and side-effect free in trials.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The hormonal treatment is a combination of an implant under the skin and injections &#8211; meaning men do not have to remember to take a pill every day.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Researchers from the Anzac Research Institute, Sydney, Australia, gave the treatment to a relatively small sample of 55 men for a year &#8211; and none of their partners became pregnant.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  However, it will be some time before the treatment is widely available.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Very cool. Right now it&#8217;s a two-part treatment: a under-the-skin implant replaced every four months, and an injection every three months. Maybe with time it&#8217;ll be simplified a bit, but no matter what, I think it&#8217;s great that there&#8217;s at least an encouraging step towards something like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a few more years of testing and study, it appears that may finally be an effective male contraceptive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[514],"class_list":["post-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}