This webinar was held in collaboration with Ferring Pharmaceuticals on 20 April 2020. As we understand, in normal times, infertile patients are already facing high psychological stress and disorder rate. One of topic of interest currently was to address how can our healthcare professionals help to reduce their patients’ stress especially in the current [...]
This webinar was held in collaboration with Ferring Pharmaceuticals on 20 May 2020. There were many interests surrounding the experience of the China IVF centers through and after COVID-19 outbreak. This session therefore invited one of the famous IVF center in Shanghai, China – Renji Hospital, who are happy to share their experience with [...]
Dear Friends and Colleagues, The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the world. Our thoughts of peace and courage are with everyone affected by the virus as well as our health professionals who are fighting hard to care and heal the affected people. As the representative of the infertility and ART industry in the Asia-Pacific region, [...]
A powerful task force of scientists and clinicians specialising in assisted conception have mounted a major campaign to close gaps in knowledge about cross border reproduction in the Asia Pacific region. Each year thousands of infertile couples travel the world for third party reproduction in the quest to achieve their dream of parenthood. The [...]
More than 1,700 fertility specialists from 50 countries attended the 9th Congress of the Asia Pacific Initiative on Reproduction (ASPIRE 2019) in Hong Kong to explore the latest advances in scientific research and clinical care of people experiencing infertility. It has been one of the most influential meetings on assisted reproduction ever presented in [...]
About 15 per cent of adults around the world experience male or female infertility, and many of them turn to advanced assisted reproductive technologies, such as IVF, to help fulfil their dreams of parenthood. More than eight million babies have been born from IVF, and the number is increasing significantly as infertility levels escalate [...]
The deeper implications of falling fertility rates in South East Asia, particularly China and Japan, have been brought into sharp focus at a global conference on human reproduction in Hong Kong. A bleak outlook has been portrayed in social and economic terms if the population downturn trend continues. Speaking at the 9th Congress of [...]
Many couples feeling stressed about not being able to conceive naturally make radical lifestyle changes, including changing jobs or taking a holiday, in the hope that it will improve their chances of having a baby. But the quest for a more relaxed lifestyle may not actually deliver the conception and baby they so desperately [...]
More than eight million children have been born around the world as a result of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) since the first so-called test tube baby was delivered in England over 40 years ago. Scientist Robert Edwards and gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe – the pioneering "Fathers of IVF" – took ten years of intensive research, [...]
A global congress on fertility health in Hong Kong this week will hear of disturbing gaps in access to female contraception across the Asia Pacific region with the poor and young most vulnerable. Assistant Professor Susan Logan, a Singapore-based specialist in sexual and reproductive health, said public access to contraception and broader reproductive health [...]
