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The trial for male birth control gel has started in Kenya with men aged between 18 and 50 being invited to enroll for the global study.
Kenya is among six countries across the world whose men were selected to take part in the research process that seeks to establish the effectiveness of a hormonal birth control gel on men.
The gel was made by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, a subsidiary of United States National Institutes of Health.
The gel is made up of two synthetic hormones, testosterone and a form of progestin.
Progestin blocks the testes from manufacturing enough testosterone to produce normal amounts of sperm.
The gel is expected to suppress sperm levels for 72 hours, meaning that a man cannot impregnate a woman within a period of three days.
“Each male participant will use the gel for a minimum of four months and their sperm levels will be monitored by researchers,” Diana Blithe, program director for contraception development at the US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development said last year.
Other countries taking part in the research process include the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Sweden, and Chile.
“Men in the trial will take home a pump bottle of the gel and rub about half a teaspoon of it on their upper arms and shoulders every day. The gel dries within a minute,” said Blithe.
Dr. John Kinuthia, the Kenya site principal investigator for the study says 60 couples from Kenya will be enlisted for the test.
“We have done all the regulatory approvals but we’re still in the preparatory stages. Once we are ready in the next couple of weeks we will start enrolling our participants here at KNH,” he says.
“Initial studies done so far show that it does not reduce libido or cause adverse skin issues,” says Dr. Kinuthia.
Currently, condoms and vasectomy are the only proven birth control options for men.
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Dr.John Kinuthia its a shame if you dont know how much the West have tried to control the population of Africa. It is always suspicious when one of us is used by the West to bring their new gimmicks among our people to control the population. It is worthy noting that this gel trial is not meant to prevent any disease; aids, std,etc . It is purely a population control device. I wonder if you are not one of Bill Gates stouches for the Africa population control.
I refer you and mwakilish readers to the "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male" of 1932 in the United States that lasted for fourty years. It's one of the examples that show what the West is capable of doing to black people. In that experiment, the American scientists (people who have taken oath to defend human life) knowingly withheld to administer Penicilin a 100% cure in order to watch what would happen to the extremes if the disease remained untreated. In essence, they used fellow human beings as guinea pigs and that is sadism. Furthermore, these innocent guinea pigs were going home and interacting with their spouses/ lovers and possibly causing havoc with this disease, a fact that the scientist knew or should have known. Dr. Kinuthia, I wish you use this trial gel on yourself everyday but leave our youth alone.
You kidding me? You are suppose to rub this shit on your shoulders and it will somehow mess with your testicles. I wonder what else it's messing up in your body.
Kenyan's stay away from the gel. It's fake!!!
I hope it is not like the syphilis experiments in Guatemala
Oh please. Because an African country gets the chance to be the first one to try a too-long-in-coming option, you're complaining that's a problem? Believe me, there are men in America, Europe, Canada, China, you name it, of all skin colors who would pay through the nose for this chance. Non-condom, non-permanent birth control should be a right for ALL people, not just women, and the only reason it hasn't been is because we just haven't had the tech. Of course, that hasn't stopped tech companies from not caring enough about men at all, so they haven't been trying.
Give the west the trials too. But don't stop the current trial, this is too important to slow down!
Not welcome sir/madam! Try another country instead.