Male Contraceptive Jab Is Nearly 100% Effective

A male contraceptive injection has proved highly effective in a large study of more than 1,000 men.

Just over one in 100 men conceived a child over a period of two years, which is considered a very good result.

The testosterone injection was tested on a group of healthy fertile Chinese men aged 20 to 45. Each had fathered at least one child in the previous two years.

Female partners were aged between 18 and 38 and had no reproductive problems.

No contraceptive is 100 per cent effective and each year between 1 and 2 per cent of women on the Pill get pregnant.

Would you be willing to take your chances with an injection of this kind?

Of course there’s still that 1% chance of a knock on the door nine months done the line and not forgetting a possible trip to the local STD clinic because you never wore a raincoat.

I can only assume it’s makers see the ’steady couple’ as their target market.

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