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Human Reproduction Update Advance Access published online on October 1, 2009
Human Reproduction Update, doi:10.1093/humupd/dmp039
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Letter to the Editor of Human Reproduction Update

Egbert R. te Velde1,5, Henri Leridon2,3,4 and J. Dik F. Habbema1

1 Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA, The Netherlands 2 INED, Paris F-75020, France 3 INSERM, Unit 822, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre F-94276, France 4 Univ Paris-Sud 11, Faculté de Medicine, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre F-94276, France

To whom correspondence should be addressed at: 5 Correspondence address. E-mail: e.r.tevelde@wanadoo.nl

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Sir,

In a recent review, Ziebe et al. (2008)Go argue that ‘ART can have an important impact on economic and demographic factors and should be incorporated into a population policy mix’. In arriving at this conclusion, the authors define infertility as a ‘failure to conceive after at least 1 year of unprotected coitus’, and after this year assisted reproductive technology (ART) ‘provides a medical solution for individuals with infertility by allowing them the chance to start with their own family’. This interpretation of infertility . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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