Sperm Donor Beware

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Need to be aware of donor sperm, donor egg, donor embryo, the choice of gender in pregnancy without medical indication and pregnant deposit.

Research Center for Community-Based Services Reproductive Health and Infertility should further develop the technique preimplantation diagnosis (PGD) to select embiro good, for the sake of improving pregnancy and prevent birth defects, stem cells with the goal of treatment.

Soegiharto Soebijanto (64) confirms that, in a speech in the inaugural professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, Saturday (05/06/2010) yesterday in Salemba, Jakarta.

"With the success already created artificial gametes is female sperm and female egg outside the country, is not impossible that this science will flourish in our land, and there will be demand for the homosex and lesbians want to have children of their partner. Rambu regulatory signs must be prepared before the problem arises, "he said.

In the inaugural speech titled IVF in Indonesia The Present and Future, reveals, the number of fertile couples in Indonesia about 40 million, there are around 6 million couples are infertile. About 30 percent of cases of infertility requiring IVF service or assisted reproductive techniques (TRB).

According Soegiharto, the cost of IVF services in Indonesia around 50 million, far less expensive than IVF abroad, which reaches around Rp369 million in the United States, Rp360 million in the UK, and around Rp220 million in Scandinavia. Costs will increase with increasing age of the wife. Of course this data is useful to prevent people should not look for IVF services to overseas.

Success rate at the age of 37 years was 27.4 percent and there was no live birth rate in the age group above 48 years. The Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) in 2008 concluded that, in the United States live birth rate was 41.3 percent and 47.3 cycles per ET for pe rsen psien under the age of 35 years.

While the success of the procedure performed 3 live birth rate is 45-53 percent, after the procedure done 6 times TRB live birth rate 51-71 percent. Live birth rate in Indonesia reached 25 percent, he said.

One effort to improve the results by treatment prior to stimulation, with the provision of contraceptive pills. Contraceptive pill, continued Soegiharto, consisting of estrogen alone, progesterone alone or a combination of both. This initial treatment will suppress the production of endogenous hormones, so an increase in response to the stimulation drugs.

Vitamin A intake

Besides Soegiharto Soebijanto, also delivered the inaugural speech as professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the Faculty of Medicine University, is Andrijono 57. He delivered a speech titled Improving Nutritional Status of Vitamin A One particular Sati Improving Reproductive Health Through the efforts of prevention Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary hydatidiform mole.

Andrijono say, prevention is the prevention of primary hydatidiform mole is very important, because the primary pencehagan provide an effective and cheap success. Although to establish that the intake of vitamin A as primary prevention is still needed strengthening in subsequent studies.

"However, efforts to improve the intake of vitamin A is one of langah an easy, safe, and inexpensive to prepare for pregnancy is excellent," he said.

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