First Male Birth Control Pill in Development; Promises 99 Percent Effectiveness
First Male Birth Control Pill in Development; Promises 99 Percent Effectiveness – After 30 years of development, the pill is expected to hit the market in 2016. Although, due to regulations, it may take another 10 years to hit the US and Europe.
Great news for women! Scientists have finally begun to develop a male birth-control pill. Derived from an Indonesian shrub, it is apparently 99% effective. A professor at Airlangga University in Indonesia, Bambang Prajogo, has conducted research and clinical trials. He found out about it when he heard rumors that tribesmen of Papua New Guinea had been long using it to prevent conception.
The shrub, gendarussa, apparently disrupts and weakens enzymes in sperm that allow them to squirm into a woman’s ovum. The enzymes do not destroy the quantity and quality of sperm and within a month of stopping the pill, male fertility goes back to normal.
What’s more, there are few side effects. Only a few men in the study reported gaining weight. Certainly nothing that compares with the dangerous side-effects often caused by female hormone-based contraception.
Although promising, no word on when it could become marketable in the US or if women would trust their partners to take it.
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