European Network
for
Shared Contraception
Welcome to the website of the ENSC Association, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to promoting and raising awareness of male contraception.
Our mission is to facilitate the formation of local user committees and to support volunteers, doctors and anyone interested in male contraception.​
Our aim is to
The ENSC Association aims to break down taboos and encourage open discussion about contraceptive burden sharing across Europe.
We believe in the importance of education and information to enable men to take responsibility for their fertility and make informed decisions about their reproductive health.
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What we do
We facilitate the creation of local user committees at the request of sexual health centres, or even the users themselves, through various actions:
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Recruiting and training volunteers: We meet and put in touch volunteers who want to get involved in user committees. We then offer them training on current and future contraception methods, and provide them with videos and specific documents to help them organise their meetings and events. We also offer a charter to all user committees, which includes a common base for all countries and articles adapted by the referent members. You can find it here: Committee charter.
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Working with referring doctors: We work closely with volunteer doctors to ensure that the information and advice provided is up to date and in line with the most relevant medical practices. We are looking for at least one referral doctor for each committee.
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Provision of information packs: We provide user committees with packs containing resources and information on the various methods of male contraception that exist or are being developed, as well as online resources that can be easily shared.​
Who are we?
We are a small association based in Lyon, France, where each member is a referent for his or her country:
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FRANCE - Stéphanie DUPIN - Former consultant in small business development and co-founder of Entrelac.coop, the first cooperative dedicated to access to the male contraception market.
She is responsible for the ENSC association and organises the MindYour Sperm Tour!.
GERMANY - Franka FREI - Author and journalist, specialising in gender issues. Following her book ‘Menstruation is political: Manifesto against the menstrual taboo’, she gives lectures on the political dimensions of menstruation.
Her second book, ‘Überfällig. Warum Verhütung auch Männersache ist’, is about responsibility for contraception and ways of sharing it.
SWITZERLAND - Jannick BÖHM - A political scientist by training, Jannick is a member of Santé Sexuelle Suisse, where he is the expert on male contraception. He also works in the fields of sex education, assertiveness and self-defence. He runs the Herzsprung programme, which combats violence in young couples among schoolchildren aged 13 to 15.
BELGIUM- Louise-Marie DROUSIE - A midwife with a master's degree in public health, Louise-Marie DROUSIE is coordinator of the education department of the non-profit organisation O'YES (organisation for youth education and sexuality). Passionate about contraception and trained in its various methods, her main concern is to enable people to take charge of their own health and well-being.
Our objectives
Improving contraceptive burden sharing
Breaking down taboos about contraception for people with testicles
Cooperate with institutions and health professionals to make these methods accessible to all.