Overview
- Peru’s Health Ministry announced free vasectomies from November 17 to 21 across 73 hospitals, with sign‑ups through hospital family‑planning consultories or the 113 hotline, option 3.
- Buenos Aires province hosts World Vasectomy Day’s largest annual meeting in La Plata from November 10 to 14, including training sessions and a one‑day marathon of 60 procedures at six public hospitals.
- The no‑scalpel technique uses a small puncture instead of incisions, can be performed outside operating rooms, and typically allows return to normal activities within 48–72 hours.
- Experts report very high effectiveness, with failure risk under 0.5% falling to about 0.05% after a confirming semen analysis; patients must ejaculate repeatedly over roughly 12 weeks before testing.
- Health messaging stresses that vasectomy does not prevent sexually transmitted infections and recommends condom use when relevant, as uptake rises sharply in places such as Buenos Aires province, where annual procedures grew from 113 in 2020 to 1,774 in 2024.