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Published online 12 March 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.668
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Developing countries "to get $200 IVF"
Fertility experts launch drive to provide affordable infertility treatment.
A task force has been established to provide infertile couples in poor countries with access to affordable reproductive treatments such as IVF, a European group of fertility experts announced today. They are aiming to roll out a network of cheap clinics that could offer IVF, for example, for as little as US$200 a time.
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This sounds like an absolute demagogical measure. Wouldn't it be better to use the money to feed the children already born? Perhaps we should study who will be the supliers making money out of the scheme
This sounds like an absolute demagogical measure. Wouldn't it be better to use the money to feed the children already born? Perhaps we should study who will be the supliers making money out of the scheme
The problem here is not medical but social related. The situation that must be changed is the stigma to infertile women. I think the IVF programe will only degenerated this condition.