Contraception (Health)

Dutch Company Sees Male Pill in Five Years

Published in Sex Weekly Plus, September 22nd, 1997

For too long women have been made to bear the prime responsibility for birth control, researchers at Akzo Nobel's prescription drugs unit Organon believe.

Now Organon, maker of several best-selling oral contraceptive brands, is looking into developing a male pill. A final decision on whether to press ahead is expected in the next few months.

Pilot feasibility studies look promising and, if researchers get approval, Organon could be ready to register a male contraceptive pill in five years, says Professor Herjan Coelingh Bennink, director of the reproductive medicine program.

"The idea [of a male pill] has been around for 30 years...

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