EUROPE

The Population Council collaborates with research laboratories, clinical centers, pharmaceutical companies, universities, and nongovernmental organizations to conduct biomedical, social science, and operations research in a number of European countries.

Most recently the Council has granted awards or contracts to, and entered into collaborative studies with, organizations in France, Germany, Latvia, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

Members of the Population Council’s International Committee for Contraception Research and other scientists with special expertise have collaborated with the Council’s Center for Biomedical Research in New York to develop clinical research programs. Among them:

• Ongoing clinical trials in France and Belgium have provided important data for the continuing development of a contraceptive vaginal ring releasing Nestorone^®—a versatile synthetic progestin similar to the natural hormone progesterone—and ethinyl estradiol, a form of estrogen.

• Formulations developed toward male contraceptive methods using subdermal implants containing the Council’s testosterone substitute MENT^® are being tested in Germany.

• Research is being conducted at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, to better understand the mechanics of HIV transmission, with the aim of advancing the development of an anti-HIV/AIDS microbicide and, ultimately, contributing to the study of vaccines and therapeutic treatments.

The Council's Frontiers in Reproductive Health program, funded by the US Agency for International Development, recently completed studies in Kazakhstan ("Promotion of lactational amenorrhea method and breastfeeding intervention trial" [more]), Romania ("Improving health care providers’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices in reproductive health in rural Romania" [more]), and Russia ("Testing two models of postabortion family planning in Russia" [more]).

Europeans were awarded four of the 17 fellowships given in 2005 for advanced study in reproduction science at the Council's New York biomedical laboratories. In 2003–04 three European Union residents received MEAwards.

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See Also

• Fellowships

• Frontiers in Reproductive Health

• International Committee for Contraception Research

• MEAwards

• MENT Studies

• Microbicides

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This page updated 28 November 2006

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