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Involve men more in medicalhelp seeking
(Dyer et al 2004, Hörbst 2010)
“Men, even if they have a problem, they would not come and it’s very difficult to investigate men in this country, because of the belief that if they are able to perform sexuality then they are not fertile. They don’t seem to understand that, actually, that (if) you are sexually able (this) does not mean that the sperms
a r e n o r m a l . So , t h e r e i s a d i s c o n n e c t i o n o n t h a t issue. So, they refuse to come for checking, yeah. So, you find that almost it is very rare that you find the couple coming, the man and the wife, no, it’s the women who will come (...)” (gynaecologist, Kenya)
AddressUnmet Need forIVF
(Ombelet 2012, 2014; Ombelet et al 2008)
To make save, more affordable and effective IVFaccessible to allwho need it
Support furtherdevelopment and spread of more affordable IVF(asforexample initiated by the Walking Egg)
When IVFinvolves gamete donation or surrogacy - adequate counseling iscrucial
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