Infertility: one in eight couples affected
Infertility affects one in eight couples in France.
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By: Caroline Paré Follow
1 min
We speak of infertility in a couple in the absence of pregnancy after one year of regular sexual intercourse.
In France, around one in eight couples consult because of difficulty conceiving a child.
Infertility can be of male or female origin or associated with both sexes.
However, 25% of cases remain unjustified.
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What can be the causes of infertility?
What support is possible?
What role can medically assisted procreation (MAP) play?
Dr Sylvie Epelboin,
obstetrician gynecologist, reproductive doctor and coordinator of the
Center for Medical Assistance to Procreation
at
the Bichat Hospital
in Paris
Dr Djedi Kaba Diakité,
specialist in Gyneco-obstetrics and Microsurgery of sterility, graduate in Medically Assisted Procreation (PMA), general manager of the
Kabala Clinic
in Bamako in Mali, former president of
GIERAF
(Interafrican Group for Research Studies and Application to Fertility) from 2015 to 2017.
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