Bipartisan Congressional Briefing Wednesday, July 12, 2023

10:30-11:45am PT / 1:30-2:45 ET

The Latest Insights and Opportunities for Improving Family Planning Options for Maternal Wellbeing

The world is demanding more options for male birth control.

Current options for birth control focus mostly on female fertility, burdening women with a majority of the responsibility for reproductive planning. Negative side effects and health risks associated with these options have also led almost half of all females in the US to discontinue their use.

Male birth control options have traditionally been limited to vasectomy, condoms, and withdrawal. Vasectomy is effective but reversal is expensive and unpredictable. Condoms reduce disease transmission, but their pregnancy protection failure rate in typical use is 14-18%. The withdrawal method typically has an even higher failure rate.

The development of a non-hormonal, long-lasting, and reversible male birth control option offers a greater choice of control for both individuals and couples when planning their future.

Over 50,000 men and women are actively stepping up to seek solutions through Plan A™.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION

  1. United Nations Population Fund. 2022. State of World Population Report.

  2. Friedman et al., 2019. Interest Among U.S. Men for New Male Contraceptive Options. Male Contraceptive Initiative, 12.

  3. Friedman et al., 2019. Interest Among U.S. Men for New Male Contraceptive Options. Male Contraceptive Initiative, 10.