It will soon be possible to use a one-size-size needle to dissolve in the skin once, providing effective contraceptive for one month, without the intervention of the doctor.
This contraceptive is a sticker. This new needle has been tested on laboratory mice and proven to be effective.
For low-income people, this is a disadvantage because of its low costs, as well as the cost of visiting a doctor. And exempts women from the need to take the tablet inhibitor daily at a fixed time.
The site of the British newspaper Daily Mail revealed that the adhesive is mounted on a plastic platform the size of a small coin that can be stuck, and that the woman must press it for at least five seconds to ensure that the needle is subcutaneous and then melt under the skin and then in the blood .
The needle provides levels of hormones needed to prevent pregnancy.
Researchers at the Georgia Technical Institute say the new method may change the rules for women, especially in remote, poor areas where access to a female doctor is very difficult.
Despite the prevalence of contraceptive pills, many women do not take them regularly daily, and do not meet the timing of swallowing that must be identical, so they get unwanted pregnancies, but the new invention goes beyond this problem.
Doctors and women therefore prefer to rely on contraceptives with long-term effects (monthly, semi-annually, annually or sometimes). But the use of these types requires a doctor's initial review, and continuous reviews of no more than 6 months.
"It is important that the fine needles are strong enough to penetrate the upper layer of the skin and stay upright underneath it to ensure that it spreads to the drug it carries under the skin," said researcher Mark Brosnitz, co-author of the study.
But research and experimentation still take two years, so research institutions and clinics can conduct new trials of women and prove their effectiveness.