WVD FINAL 9-30 - World Vasectomy Day

LOOKING FOR 1,500 GOOD MEN: A CALLOUT TO MEN AROUND THE
WORLD TO SIGN UP FOR A VASECTOMY ON WORLD VASECTOMY DAY
SECOND ANNUAL GLOBAL EVENT INVITES MEN
TO HONOR THEMSELVES, THEIR FAMILIES AND THEIR PARTNERS
MEDIA INVITED TO COVER VASECTOMIES IN PROGRESS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Zan Dubin-Scott
(310) 383-0956
[email protected]
New York, NY, Sept. 30, 2014—World Vasectomy Day is asking men whose families are
complete to sign up for vasectomies on Nov. 7, 2014. Some states require a 30-day waiting
period between initial consultation and vasectomy procedure, so time is of the essence. The
goal is to inspire 250 doctors in 30 countries to perform 1,500 vasectomies in 24 hours.
In 2013, 100 physicians in 25 countries did 1,000 vasectomies for the first World Vasectomy
Day, which was headquartered in Australia.
“In helping to shoulder responsibility for family planning, men become heroes to their partners,
to their families and to our future,” says World Vasectomy Day co-founder Jonathan Stack.
World Vasectomy Day organizers are working with the world’s leading practitioners to provide
free, discounted or low-cost, high-quality vasectomies, although each practitioner will set his
or her own pricing. Physicians may sign up on the website to participate and dedicate the
day’s vasectomies to World Vasectomy Day.
In the U.S., World Vasectomy Day will be headquartered in Florida at Planned Parenthood of
Greater Orlando’s new Kissimmee Health Center, 610 Oak Commons Blvd., Kissimmee, FL
34741. Urologist Doug Stein, M.D., World Vasectomy Day co-founder, is offering 25 men the
chance to get their vasectomies done free of charge. Men may register on Stein’s website:
www.vasweb.com.
The Orlando vasectomies will be live-streamed on the World Vasectomy Day website. The
live webcast, a global vasectomy-athon, will include feeds from many participating doctors,
interviews with family planning leaders, and live vasectomies from around the world.
World Vasectomy Day partners include Marie Stopes International, a London-based nonprofit
family planning organization operating in 37 countries.
Currently, about half (51%) of the 6.6 million pregnancies in the United States each year (3.4
million) are unintended. Roughly four in 10 pregnancies worldwide are unintended. [1] The
average woman spends about five years pregnant, postpartum or trying to become pregnant,
and three decades—more than three-quarters of her reproductive life—trying to avoid an
unintended pregnancy.
Stein, one of the world’s most prolific providers with over 33,000 vasectomies completed, has
traveled to Kenya, Haiti and the Philippines on vasectomy missions. “My inspiration are men
like George Mbogah, a 38-year old Kenyan father of two, who scraped together enough
money for a 20-hour bus trip for his vasectomy,” Stein says. “George told me, ‘I don’t want
my wife to suffer another painful pregnancy, nor my children to suffer the bitter taste of
poverty.’ I was inspired to bring this opportunity to others.”
Media are invited to observe and photograph live vasectomies by Stein and other doctors in
the U.S. and abroad and interview consenting patients. Media contact: Zan Dubin-Scott:
(310) 383-0956; [email protected].
1. Guttmacher Institute.
About World Vasectomy Day: The goal of World Vasectomy Day is to heighten awareness
of and dispel myths about vasectomy, increase access to the procedure, particularly for the
underserved, and to inspire more men to become engaged as equal partners with women in
the global family planning conversation. The annual global observance, launched in 2013, is
a project of World Vasectomy Day Services, a New York-based organization with nonprofit
status pending. It was created by Jonathan Stack, an Emmy Award-winning and two-time
Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker, and urologist Doug Stein, M.D., who
has performed over 33,000 vasectomies. www.worldvasectomyday.org. Media: Zan DubinScott at [email protected].

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