President, African Fertility Society (AFS) and Medical Director of Medical Art Centre (MART) and MART Detox Clinic, Ikeja, Lagos, Prof. Oladapo Ashiru, has urged governments across Africa to introduce stricter regulations for Assisted Reproductive Techniques (ART) and In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) as well as laws to reduce stigma and discrimination against childless couples. Ashiru said a team of experts raised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) had developed Fertility Guidelines especially on the practice of IVF/ARTs in Africa. Ashiru said: “The long awaited change in fertility mind set of the African will now begin to change for ever. Infertility issues have been neglected not only in Uganda but also in the whole of Africa and other developing countries, but the developed world has gone ahead to handle the infertility issue. “Although Uganda has a high fertility rate [about seven children per woman], there are a big number of couples who suffer from infertility.

Source: The Guardian March 08, 2018 03:56 UTC