Affordable ART services in Africa: synthesis and adaptation of laboratory services
Author(s) -
C. Huyser
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
eshre monographs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1477-8378
pISSN - 1477-741X
DOI - 10.1093/humrep/den139
Subject(s) - adaptation (eye) , ecosystem services , business , psychology , ecology , biology , neuroscience , ecosystem
The aim of this paper is to provide information, opinions and suggestions on affordable laboratory-orientated fertility screening and treatment. Resource management to provide such services in developing countries, basic and advanced assisted reproductive services and assisted reproduction treatment (ART) of patients with sexually transmitted infections are addressed. Alternative viewpoints and parallel thinking should be encouraged to synthesize and adapt first-world ART guidelines and recommendations into safe and workable directives for developing regions. Affordable African ART programmes, devoid of commercialism, can provide essential sexual health screening services en route to safe fertility services for human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) serodiscordant couples (male HIV-positive), who wish to have their own biological child.The semen decontamination research has been funded by the South African Medical Research Council (MRC
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