World Vasectomy Day 2014 (WVD2014)
A vasectomy to mark World Vasectomy Day
A short history
In 2013 the American film director Jonathan Stack and the American urologist Dr Doug Stein initiated and jointly funded the World Vasectomy Day Organisation (WVDO). Its aim is to popularise vasectomy, especially in less developed countries with an enormous birth rate and in countries where, because of superstition and a lack of understanding of what a vasectomy is, it is hardly available. WVDO also aims to inspire people to engage in a worldwide debate on family planning.
In 2013 the World Vasectomy Day organisation not only achieved its planned goal, which was to recruit 100 doctors from 25 countries and engage them to perform 1,000 vasectomies within 24 hours. In addition, WVD’s activities resonated widely in the world media, which found expression in more than 25,000 publications of various kinds. Some of them were multimedia publications in the form of bloggers’ statements and articles published by journalists writing for online portals.
World Vasectomy Day also attracted the attention of classic media in the form of several dozen television programmes – some broadcast live the course of vasectomies performed in a television studio in front of the audience (behind a screen), while others, such as TVP (Pytanie na Śniadanie), produced their own studio programmes with invited guests. In addition, WVDO’s work was reflected in an enormous series of press articles around the world.
Free vasectomy in Poland in 2014
On 7 November 2014 another World Vasectomy Day took place.
Around the world, several hundred doctors performed about 1,500 vasectomies. Many of them donated part of the income from the procedures in support of WVD. In many centres the event was recorded and is available online and in selected media (http://worldvasectomyday.org).
Here in Poland, where vasectomy is not very popular, at ZdrOva in Warsaw we decided – as in the previous year – to perform 5 free vasectomies. Three of them took place in front of the camera (film below).
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Here we would like to thank the patients who agreed to take part in making the programme and in popularising vasectomy as male contraception. Their participation may encourage other men, especially in overpopulated developing countries, to take responsibility, to plan their families consciously and to free women from the burden of responsibility and the possible consequences of its absence.
World Vasectomy Day and its sister organisation No Scalpel Vasectomy International are non-profit organisations – they share a common bank account. Please support them, even with a small amount http://www.nsvi.org/make-a-donation.
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