Law 40 was one of the main causes of many Italian couples emigration in foreign clinics. A law that over time has been improved by the judgments of various courts, the last one was made in Bologna and it stated the application of the technique of artificial insemination for the infertile couples but with serious communicable diseases.The latest news, however, comes from Africa and could be a hope for many young couples, those with low pay and mortgages to pay, who cannot bear the costs of at least one cycle of artificial insemination. Soon it may be reality artificial insemination low cost. In the capital of Sudan will open, in late October, a clinic that promises to provide for artificial insemination therapy for less than $ 300.
Prices, therefore, will be certainly less compared to Western clinics where the business of test-tube baby (in rich countries the cost of one cycle can reach the 12 thousand dollars) will be no longer justifiable. Prices could then fall but we will need to know first if in Africa they'll decide to apply the same care also to foreign couples. Because the choice to open a clinic for the 'low cost in vitro fertilization' is not a purely economic decision. Contrary to what one can think, Africa suffers from the problem of infertility, too, that affects up to a couple every three, mainly affected by sexually transmitted infections and practices (such as genital mutilation), that cause infertility.
The Khartoun clinic will be funded by Low Cost IVF Foundation in Massagno, Switzerland, which promotes the simplification of processes for IVF with the intent to demonstrate how the material costs for one cycle of IVF may be less than 200 dollars.
"In the West, one treatment of assisted reproduction is often prohibitively expensive," said Jonathan Van Blerkom of the University of Colorado and member of the team ESHRE (European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology) and hearing the latest news he was definitely right.
So after the countries of Eastern Europe now even those of the South of the World find a new business: according to New Scientist magazine there would be other clinics offering the same European treatments at prices much lower, in Arusha, Tanzania, and Cape Town, South Africa.
Artificial insemination: maybe something has changed
Marianna Lepore
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