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Male Infertility: The West s Hidden Pandemic Male infertility is rising at an alarming rate and research in the Western world - chester wade
Across the Western world, the number of men unable to have children without medical intervention is growing. Health specialists are raising the alarm and scientists are struggling to find the cause, while politicians are ignoring the issue.
BERLIN For many people, having a child signifies the hope, or perhaps even the certainty, that life will continue even after they are dead. Many men find it difficult to come to terms with discovering that they are infertile, it can make them feel they ve lost a part of their future. In Germany, hundreds of thousands of men are affected.
Health professionals in Sweden are sounding the alarm over concerns of a sperm donation shortage spurred by the coronavirus pandemic.
With sperm donors deterred from travelling to hospitals during the pandemic, doctors at public fertility clinics say the worsening shortage could result in years-long delays for assisted pregnancy treatments. Because of the pandemic, many [men] won t come to the hospital because we have social restrictions in place, Margareta Kitlinski, a senior consultant at the Centre of Reproductive Medicine at the Skane University Hospital in Malmo, told Euronews on Thursday. So, over the last three months we have had to take a pulse and [right now], we don t do any IVF treatment with donor sperms because we simply don t have any, she said.