Overview
- Peru’s Ministry of Health set a free vasectomy campaign for November 17–21 across 73 hospitals, with sign‑ups through family planning clinics and the 113 hotline.
- World Vasectomy Day’s international meeting in La Plata is running this week with trainings and simultaneous procedures in provincial hospitals, including a mobile clinic day.
- In Buenos Aires Province, annual vasectomies rose from 113 in 2020 to 1,774 in 2024, with 1,600 no‑scalpel procedures reported so far in 2025.
- Clinicians highlight the no‑scalpel, office‑based approach under local anesthesia that takes about 20 minutes, enables recovery in 48–72 hours, and frees operating rooms.
- Health guidance stresses 99.5% effectiveness after confirmation, the need for 20–30 ejaculations plus a semen analysis before relying on the method, no protection against STIs, and no impact on erection, libido, ejaculation or hormones.