No more recourse to assisted reproduction, medically assisted procreation. No more children born thanks to medical help. This is the trend that emerges from an international study coordinated by Inserm, the National Institute of Health and Medical Research, published online on May 28 in the journal Human reproduction. This international committee, coordinated in France by Jacques de Mouzon, a researcher at Inserm, has in fact compiled figures from 1,563 clinics in 53 countries.
PMA “is responsible for around 219,000 to 246,000 children each year in the world,” reveals Inserm. “Between 2000 and 2002, the number of people using medically assisted procreation increased by more than 25%.” This growth is due to the greater number of countries taken into account in this work “but above all to an increase in activity in most countries”.
In France, more than 53,000 procedures have been initiated, for 11,184 births, an increase of 5% compared to the year 2000.
Other data to note: “The use of ART varies from two attempts per million inhabitants in Ecuador, to 3688 per million in Israel. In France, these figures approach the number of 2000 attempts per million inhabitants. “