Budget Fertility Treatments Planned For Africa
Mercy…
First of all, according to a new report from the International Food Policy Research Institute, the number of hungry children in Africa will increase by 3.3 million by 2025 if current policy and investment trends continue. And this doesn’t even take into account the millions of adults who are starving. Yet ... doctors want to introduce a procedure to enhance the population growth. Go figure.
BARCELONA, Spain—Doctors are getting ready to introduce a cheap in vitro fertilization procedure across Africa, where women are sometimes ostracized as witches or social outcasts if they cannot have children.
Millions of dollars go into family planning projects and condom distribution to prevent pregnancies in Africa, but experts said that more than 30 percent of women on the continent are unable to have children. An estimated 80 million people in developing countries are infertile worldwide.
“Infertility is taboo in Africa,” said Willem Ombelet, head of a task force at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology looking into infertility in developing countries. “Nobody has paid attention to this issue, but it is a huge problem and we need to do something.”
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