Question 10898 — health

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Ms. Émilie Bonnivard draws the attention of the Minister of Solidarity and Health to the alarming issue of infertility in France. Today, 10% to 15% of couples experience difficulty conceiving a child and seek advice for infertility. Each year, nearly 25,000 children are born using medically assisted procreation (ART) techniques: 70% by in vitro fertilization and 30% by insemination. If the AMP gives hope for couples, the journey is nevertheless restrictive and leaves almost half of the couples in failure. Scientists are alarmed by the increase in the use of AMP in Europe. It is clear that medical techniques for assisted procreation (insemination, IVF, ICSI, etc.) have developed. However, this should not exempt us from carrying out real research on the causes of infertility, on strategies prevention and real therapeutic treatments. INSERM reveals that in half a century, “the density of spermatozoa has been halved among Westerners”. Scientists attribute the growth of infertility to environmental factors (pesticides, pollution) or lifestyles (smoking, sedentary lifestyle). Aggravating cause, according to epidemiologists and demographers Henri Léridon and Rémy Slama, the increase from maternal age to first child will soon cross the thirty-year mark in France; their hypotheses go so far as to envisage that one couple in five would, in the long term, be affected by sterility, compared to one in ten currently. Consequently, she asks her to please indicate whether she intends to initiate a study aimed at identifying all the causes of infertility in France and listing all the means to prevent it.

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