Dear Friends,
Welcome to the July issue of World Vasectomy Day’s newsletter, celebrating World Population Day. We want to thank Nandita Bajaj, executive director of Population Balance, for her excellent contribution this month, entitled Pronatalist Misinformation Fuels Low-Fertility Alarmism.
WVD’s World Cup Campaign
Family planning is a team sport, and organizations must play the game together.
When we say that family planning is a team sport, we mean the importance of communication, mutual support, and shared decision-making within each family. But this message also reflects how we, as organizations, healthcare professionals, and advocates for sexual and reproductive rights, choose to work.
For decades, co-responsibility has been part of the family planning discourse. However, in practice, many programs, campaigns, and public conversations continue to be primarily directed at women.
The “Family planning is a team sport” campaign reminds us that men have a fundamental role to play. Not only as partners or allies in their partners’ reproductive decisions, but as individuals with their own concerns, rights, and responsibilities.
In that spirit, we want to acknowledge all the organizations, public institutions, healthcare professionals, and allies who work every day to include men in conversations about family planning. Organizations seeking new ways to communicate with men are designing services tailored to their needs and promoting a vision of family planning based on shared responsibility.
On July 17, all these efforts will converge at the Vasectomy World Cup, a global day of action in which clinics, organizations, ministries of health, and communities in different countries will hold vasectomy clinics, educational activities, and awareness campaigns. Through an international live broadcast, the world will be able to experience these events and learn how the same message is transformed into concrete actions to expand access to vasectomy and promote men’s participation.
This initiative would not be possible without the organizations that have embraced the campaign’s message and turned it into action. In a context where sexual and reproductive rights face increasing challenges worldwide, collaboration is not just a strategy: it is a necessity.
Together we can build stronger messages, reach new communities, and incorporate men as key players in family planning. The Vasectomy World Cup is, above all, a tribute to all the teams that have chosen to play together.
There’s still room for more players. If your organization isn’t yet part of this initiative, we invite you to join the campaign, organize activities in your community, and be part of this global movement. Because family planning is a team sport, and every great victory requires those who are willing to play their part.
