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YEAR: 1983

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

The next twenty years with contraceptive method. [Los proximos 20 anos con

metodos contraceptivos.]

AUTHORS

SOURCE

Prensa Medica Argentina. 1983 Apr 29;70(4):171-2.

ABSTRACT

Although contraception has had a profound effect on the world population explosion, there is still no ideal method,

and it may be difficult to develop one. The results of a survey conducted by the Office of Technology Assessment of

the US Congress indicate that several new forms of contraception are under development and may be in use by the

year 2000. Among those whose use is highly probable before 1990 are safer oral contraceptives (OCs) with smaller

doses, lower concentrations of the drug in the blood, or drugs designed to alter the ovarian cycle; improved copper

IUDs that need replacement every 5-10 years and safer postpartum IUDs; improved female local methods; injections

of more concentrated steroids lasting 1-6 months; more precise methods of determining ovulation; subcutaneous

steroid implants; steroid vaginal rings; luteinizing hormone analogs that inhibit ovulation by affecting the pituitary

gland; and prostaglandin analog vaginal suppositories that would induce menstruation. Methods that are under

experimental development and may be in use by 1990 inclue 1-month OCs; monthly injectable steroids with fewer

side effects; new types of IUDs affording longterm release of drugs or antibiotics to counteract side effects; vaginal

rings with minidoses of progestogens that could be continuously maintained in place; a pregnancy vaccination; more

effective male methods such as condoms impregnated with spermcide; sperm suppressing pills, implants, or

injections; reversible female sterilization; simple nonsurgical male and female sterilization; and hormones for self-

induction of menstruation. Methods in early stages of development or theoretically feasible methods that may be in

use by the year 2000 include a male fertility vaccine, daily or weekly pills to inhibit production of enzymes essential

for sperm metabolism; pills or implants to inhibit sperm maturation; OCs to prolong the ovulation suppressing effect

of lactation; a simple test to predict ovulation; OCs not composed of steroids; a pill to impede ovum transport;

reversible male sterilization using removable immplants; and pharmacological or immunological female sterilization.

(PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT5T 2037-06)

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proximos 20 anos con metodos contraceptivos.]", is(are) . The source of this article is "Prensa Medica Argentina.

1983 Apr 29;70(4):171-2.". This article was published in 1983 in Spanish language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document

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