ASRM International Activities
This column highlights activities submitted by ASRM Members from countries outside the United States.
ASRM International Activities
May 21, 2012
The FIGO Committee on Reproductive Medicine (FIGO CRM) was established in October, 2009 under the Chairmanship of Dr. David Adamson, (USA). Other Committee members include Siladitya Bhattacharya, Co-chair (UK), John Collins (Canada), Klaus Diedrich (Germany), Silke Dyer (South Africa), Egbert te Velde (Netherlands), Christine Robinson (UK), PC Wong (Singapore) and Fernando Zegers-Hochschild (Chile). The mission of the FIGO CRM is to create access to quality reproductive medical care for women across the world.
ASRM International Activities
May 08, 2012
Infertility in South Africa is common and associated with many negative psycho-social consequences often resulting in profound suffering of those affected. Despite this, access to quality infertility care is difficult for the majority of infertile patients living in South Africa. Comprehensive infertility care including assisted reproductive techniques (ART) is predominantly offered through the private sector in urban centres, with very limited or no insurance benefits offered by private medical aids. These facilities are largely inaccessible to rural and poorer patients.
ASRM International Activities
November 18, 2010
Single embryo transfer (SET) has become common and every day practice in all Nordic countries. The first randomized study in 2001 (HR 16:1990, 2001) and several other studies thereafter have shown the effectiveness of SET. A recent study from Finland showed that elective SET with cryopreservation is more effective and less expensive than two embryo transfer, and the incidence of multiple births is reduced more than two-fold (HR 24:1632, 2009).
ASRM International Activities
July 01, 2010
In October 2008, The Latin-American Federation of Societies of Fertility and Sterility (FLASEF) changed its bylaws and became the Latin-American Association of Reproductive Medicine (ALMER); being the main difference that ALMER represents Latin-American members on an individual basis (similar to ESHRE or ASRM) whereas FLASEF represented only Fertility Societies (similar to IFFS).The previous format had limitations, since several members were not represented by FLASEF because their countries did not have a fertility society, or some societies only accepted physicians as members and therefore embryologists, psychologists and other fields were not represented.
ASRM International Activities
May 18, 2010
The first IVF baby was born in Japan in 1983. The number of infants born as a result of assisted reproductive technology (ART) has increased every year ever since. In 2007, the total number of infants born as a result of ART was reported to be 19,595, close to 2% of all births.