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CONGRESS COURSE 4
Sunday, 23 June 2019 I Room Schubert 1
Global access to assisted reproductive technologies: hurdles and opportunities
Organised by Special Interest Group Ethics and Law
and Special Interest Group Global and Socio-cultural aspects of (in)fertility)
COURSE COORDINATORS
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
Who has access to ART treatment? The barriers
Chairs: Lucy Frith (United Kingdom), Virginie Rozée (France)
09:00 - 09:30
09:30 - 09:45 09:45 - 10:15
10:15 - 10:30 10:30 - 11:00 11:00 - 11:30
11:30 - 11:45 11:45 - 12:15
12:15 - 12:30 12:30 - 13:30
Prevalence of infertility and barriers of access to infertility care
Jacky Boivin, United Kingdom
Discussion
Universal access to infertility care: actual figures and possible solutions
Willem Ombelet, Belgium
Discussion
Coffee break
Universal access to infertility care: Perspectives from Africa
Silke J. Dyer, South Africa
Discussion
Reimbursement of infertility treatment with public money: recommended or unacceptable?
Guido Pennings, Belgium Discussion
Lunch break
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