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Learning Objectives
To discuss and understand
• Access to assisted reproduction: actual figures
• The need for infertility care on a global scale
• The most important reasons for differences in access to ART
• Possible solutions
The estimate of the magnitude of the involuntary infertile Demographic definition - 5 years of childlessness (2004)
(in developing countries minus China, data up to year 2000)
180 160 140 120 100
Total: 186 million women
168
Secundary infertile
Prevalence of infertility Prevalence of infertility
80 60 40 20
18 0
Primary infertile
(Source: Rutstein and Shah, DHS Comparative Reports, no. 9, 2004)
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millions