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• 1.

  In January 1995, Whitehall-Robbins Healthcare, the maker of the Today sponge, once the most popular over-the-counter contraceptive for women, announced that it would discontinue the product, saying that it could not assume the costs of bringing the plant up to FDA specifications. Whitehall is a division of American Home Products Corporation; when Today sales were at their peak in 1993, the method accounted for about $17 million out of American Home's $8 billion in sales.

• 2.	The committee is grateful to the industry research firm Frost and Sullivan for giving the Institute of Medicine permission to use copyrighted information presented in this section.

• 3.

  In 1994, The Rockefeller Foundation stated its commitment to a strategy for resource mobilization in the field of population, including contraceptive research and development, noting that rather than adding its limited resources to an already impoverished field, it would invest in activities that would draw in more resources, help public sector programs to achieve their mission, and bring industry back. To accomplish this, the Foundation will use its convening power, commission authoritative studies, stimulate research, invest in human capital, and experiment with a challenge prize mechanism to stimulate innovation in the field (Fathalla 1994).