While more and more French people are struggling to have a child naturally, the Government wants to put in place “a strategy to fight against all causes of infertility for the spring of 2022”.
- The number of couples facing difficulties in conceiving a child continues to grow in France: infertility increases by 0.3% per year among women and 0.4% among men.
- In particular: the decline in the quality of sperm and the impact of endocrine disruptors on our bodies.
Yesterday Monday, February 21, a report on the causes of infertility in France was given to the Minister of Health Olivier Véran and to the Secretary of State for Children and Families Adrien Taquet. The result of four months of investigation, the document was designed on the basis of one hundred and fifty interviews with experts and representatives of civil society.
Revision of bioethics laws
In the context of the revision of the bioethics laws, Olivier Véran and Adrien Taquet instructed Professor Samir Hamamah, head of the reproductive biology department at Montpellier University Hospital, and Mrs. Salomé Berlioux, President of the association Chemins d’Avenir , to take stock of the causes of infertility in France and the means to put in place to deal with them.
Affecting more than 3.3 million French people, infertility leads more than 1 in 4 couples to resort to medically assisted procreation. “A major public health issue, this subject goes beyond medically assisted procreation pathways or the incentives of our family policy”, says the government in a press release.
The report recommends in particular:
– to regularly inform the publicfrom college and throughout life, on the physiology of reproduction, the decline in fertility haswith age, limits of ART and risk factors for infertility.
– To establish targeted consultations, so that young men and young women can identify potential factors affecting their fertility.
– To strengthen the training of doctors and other health professionals, on the whole little familiar with this issue.
– To develop research in the field of human reproduction and infertility.
– To create an Institutet national fertility policy, with an interministerial approach.
A monitoring committee set up
On this occasion, the Minister of Health announced his wish to transform this report into a strategy to fight against all causes of infertility for the spring of 2022, “in total synergy with the public policies undertaken by the ministry in the field of medically assisted procreation, endometriosis and sexual health”, he specifies. In this sense, a monitoring committee for this new policy will be set up immediately.
Furthermore, in terms of research, the causes of infertility will be explored within the framework of the priority program and equipment “women’s health, couples’ health”.
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