Global access to assisted reproductive technologies: hurdles and opportunities
Precongress Course 4
Special Interest Groups Ethics and Law and Global and Socio cultural aspects of (in)fertility)
Course co-ordinators
Willem Ombelet (Belgium), Françoise Shenfield (United Kingdom), Lucy Frith (United Kingdom), Guido Pennings (Belgium)
Course type
Basic
Course description
This course will look at access to artificial reproductive technologies (ARTs) and how cost and funding mechanisms influence the practice and the choices of those wishing to use ARTs. It will put these issues in a wider global context and examine the regulatory, socio-cultural and ethical aspects of access to ARTs. It will specifically consider: the prevalence of infertility, and the consequences of infertility in Africa, costing policies for ARTs, how reimbursement policies impact on access to treatment, and the implications of cross-border infertility care. Finally, the course will address wider considerations on the meaning of parenthood and why people chose to use ARTs, and cross-cultural understandings of what it means to be a parent.
Target audience
Clinicians, laboratory staff, embryologists, fertility nurses, counsellors, regulators, ethicists
Programme
Sunday 23 June 2019
09:00 - 17:00
PCC04: Global access to assisted reproductive technologies: Hurdles and opportunities
Sunday 23 June 2019
09:00 - 17:00: PCC04: Global access to assisted reproductive technologies: Hurdles and opportunities:
Lucy Frith, United Kingdom
Who has access to ART treatment? The barriers
09:00 - 09:30
Prevalence of infertility and barriers of access to infertility care
Jacky Boivin, United Kingdom
09:45 - 10:15
Universal access to infertility care: actual figures and possible solutions
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Universal access to infertility care: Perspectives from Africa
Silke J. Dyer, South Africa
11:45 - 12:15
Reimbursement of infertility treatment with public money: recommended or unacceptable?
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch break
Trudie Gerrits, The Netherlands
Opportunities and barriers
13:30 - 14:00
Applying economics to improve access to ART treatment
14:15 - 14:45
Cross-border infertility care: an opportunity for the international patient?
Françoise Shenfield, United Kingdom
14:45 - 15:00
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
What is so special about genetic parenthood?
Lucy Frith, United Kingdom
16:15 - 16:45
Parenthood in a multi-cultural context
Priya Satalkar, Switzerland