Contraception

Anti-Fertility Vaccine Seen As Tool for Governments

Published in Vaccine Weekly, September 11th, 1995

To medical researchers in a number of countries, efforts to develop a new class of contraceptives known as "anti-fertility vaccines" bring new hope.

But to a global coalition of women's health organizations, the special new drugs would offer a potential threat to the health of women and their children and an invitation to repressive governments to undertake coercive population control programs.

Research by the U.S. National Institute of Immunology (NII) in India into the vaccines has caused an uproar. Women's groups and other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have even petitioned Canada's International Development Research Center (IDRC) to cut...

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