Release date: 2016-12-07
After three years, several “next generation condoms†projects that have been rewarded by the Gates Foundation have made a lot of progress.
According to foreign media reports, sexual health has become an important part of people's lives, but research in this field has not received enough attention to provide better products for the world.
In 2013, the Gates Foundation tried to solve this problem by setting up a “Next Generation Condom†award, which was awarded the best proposal related to condoms that year. The Gates Foundation has provided $100,000 in awards for each of the 11 projects, and the content of these projects ranges from adaptive sizes to sleeves that can be worn "in one step" without affecting sexual intercourse.
The Gates Foundation said at a press conference: "It's very simple, condoms can save lives, but now new ideas are needed to ensure that men and women around the world can use them consistently and correctly to avoid unwanted pregnancies and sexuality. Spread the disease." At present, the award has been issued for three full years, have these new ideas been realized?
Everything is still going on. The development of new products and the review by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are very slow and take many years, and the cost is much more than the bonuses won by one award. Of course, this is not to say that these “homemakers†in the field of sexual health have always been satisfied with the glory.
Patrick Kiser of Northwestern University is working on a condom that resembles mucosal tissue to improve the body's touch. The mucosa is a membranous structure composed of epithelial tissue and connective tissue in an organism and is present in many organs, including the vagina and part of the penis.
At the same time, Patrick Kaiser is a member of another research team that developed a built-in vaginal ring that can play a role in birth control and release drugs for the treatment of AIDS. This ring contains the antiretroviral drug tenofovir, which may help women in developing countries avoid unwanted pregnancies and treat AIDS in the future without having to take anti-AIDS tablets on the market every day. The product is awaiting FDA approval.
Another project funded by the Gates Foundation came from Lakshminarayanan Ragupathy of HLL Lifecare Co., Ltd., who proposed a plan to design a condom with a graphene layer that can be heated to normal body temperature and used as a drug delivery system. Prevent the role of sexually transmitted diseases. The condom is still under development, but according to reports earlier this year, Ragupathy received a $1 million bonus from the Gates Foundation to ensure follow-up research after achieving certain results.
Ragupathy then embarked on a project to develop biodegradable degradation condoms. This condom has no odor and is compatible with antiviral drugs and other contraceptives. Because latex condoms take years to degrade in landfills, some consumers prefer to buy environmentally friendly condoms, such as condoms made from natural lambskin, although the latter are more expensive.
Willem van Rensburg of Kimbranox Ltd. also received a reward from the Gates Foundation. His idea is to design a condom that can be worn "in one step" without interrupting sexual intercourse. Known as the "Rapidom", this sleeve eliminates the need to tear off the condom package and then properly wear it - some men often use it as a primary reason for not using a condom.
“It takes time to wear the sleeve manually, and this often leads to incorrect postures due to interrupted sex, and the products on the market today require skill,†Vansenberg wrote in the plan. His goal is to stop the growing trend of HIV infection in his native South Africa. At the moment, the initial version of this product is available in South Africa under the trade name "Pronto Condoms", but on the crowdfunding site Indigogo, the product only raises $800.
Source: Sina Technology
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