Access to infertility investigations and treatment in couples infected with HIV: questionnaire survey

doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7324.1285

BMJ 2001;323:1285 ( 1 December )

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Access to infertility investigations and treatment in couples infected with HIV: questionnaire survey

Ade Apoola, specialist registrar ^a, Judith tenHof, registrar ^b, P S Allan, consultant ^a.

^a Department of Genitourinary Medicine, Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital, Coventry CV1 4FH, ^b Universitair Medisch Centrum, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 Utrecht, Netherlands

Correspondence to: A Apoola apoola@yahoo.com

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Life expectancy among patients infected with HIV has increased since combination anti-HIV therapies were introduced. Thishas led to calls for infertility in people with HIV to be treatedin an identical way to that in patients with other chronic medicalconditions.¹

Two broad groups of patients infected with HIV are likely to request infertility treatment. The first group consists of couplesin which only one partner is infected with HIV (serodiscordantcouples) who would like to have children but who wish to avoidthe transmission of the virus to the uninfected partner; theymay not be subfertile. The second group consists of serodiscordantcouples who are subfertile and have tried to conceive spontaneously(with the attendant risks) without success and subfertile couplesin which both partners are infected with HIV who would like tohave children. We determined whether couples presenting to infertilityclinics are offered investigations and treatment . . . [Full text of this article]

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