The WHO Task Force on Vaccines for Fertility Regulation. Its formation, objectives and research activities

Over the past 18 years, the WHO Task Force on Vaccines for Fertility Regulation has been supporting basic and clinical research on the development of birth control vaccines directed against the gametes or the preimplantation embryo. These studies have involved the use of advanced procedures in pepti...

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Published in:Human reproduction (Oxford) 1991-01, Vol.6 (1), p.166-172
Main Author: GRIFFIN, P. D
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Biological and medical sciences
Birth control
Chorionic Gonadotropin - immunology
Contraception, Immunologic - history
Contraception, Immunologic - methods
Gynecology. Andrology. Obstetrics
History of medicine
History, 20th Century
Humans
immunocontraception
Male
Medical sciences
Other methods of contraception. Sterilization
Ovum - immunology
Placenta - immunology
Placental Lactogen - immunology
Population
Spermatozoa - immunology
vaccines
World Health Organization
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Summary:Over the past 18 years, the WHO Task Force on Vaccines for Fertility Regulation has been supporting basic and clinical research on the development of birth control vaccines directed against the gametes or the preimplantation embryo. These studies have involved the use of advanced procedures in peptide chemistry, hybridoma technology and molecular genetics as well as the evaluation of a number of novel approaches in general vaccinology. As a result of this inter national, collaborative effort, a prototype anti-HCG vaccine is now undergoing clinical testing, raising the prospect that a totally new family planning method may be available before the end of the current decade.
ISSN:0268-1161
1460-2350
DOI:10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a137252