RISUG: Can’t find a company to sell it

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New male contraceptive is safe, effective, inexpensive — and can’t find a company to sell it
http://www.theprovince.com/news/world/male+contraceptive+safe+effective+inexpensive+find+company+sell/13252060/story.html

Surprise level 0.

Actually that’s not quite true.
I’m surprised they have not managed to kill it off.

For those that don’t know RISUG a non-hormonal polymer injection for a reversible long term male contraceptive.
It been in trial for over a decade in India.

Well it seems despite the resistance to it the researcher behind it persevered to the point of now finishing the human trials.

The stuff is still crawling towards being an option.

Big pharma still not interested in it naturally but Parsemus Foundation, “U.S.based non-profit; same group working on Vasalgel” is working to get the products on market some how.

It’s not here today but looks like it’s approaching much faster than I though it would be permitted too.

So RISUG is now preparing for regulatory approval. … I think it has decent odds of going through.

Why you might ask? this is what the people backing RISUG had to say on the lack of interest in the product from big pharma:

“The fact that the big companies are run by white, middle-aged males who have the same feeling-that they would never do it-plays a major role,” said Herjan Coelingh Bennink, a gynecology professor who helped develop the contraceptives Implanon and Cerazette as head of research and development in women’s health for Organon International from 1987 to 2000. “If those companies were run by women, it would be totally different.”

I had to laugh when I read that.
The stuff may get to market on the efforts of an old researcher who is driven to help the wemens.

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I wonder if Planned Parenthood will offer it after it becomes avaliable.

I bathe in the tears of single moms.

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