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Aims & Learning objectives
Global access to assisted reproductive technologies: Hurdles and opportunities
 Prevalence of infertility (for all)
 Barriers of access to fertility care (for all)
 Case stories Sudan and Zambia (ongoing research)
Cardiff Fertility Studies
Dimensions that characterise definitions of infertility
 Outcome of interest1
 Inability to achieve a pregnancy (epidemiology, medical)
 Inability to achieve a live birth (epidemiology, demography)
 Duration of exposure to unprotected intercourse2  12, 24 months (medical), X years (demography)
 ‘time to ...’, ‘time trying...’, ‘duration of ...’
 Select only people trying to conceive
 Time frames originate from Evers
 Time span that encompasses the period of infertility
 Current, lifetime, at end of reproductive life  Mode of conception3
 Impairment of capacity to reproduce (individually or with partner)
1Gurunath 2011 Hum Reprod Update; 2Evers 2002 Lancet; 3Zegers-Hochschild 2017 Hum Reprod
Cardiff Fertility Studies
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