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It is known that human reproduction is relatively ineffective. Each month, a couple with no problems conceiving, it is only 7% chance of achieving pregnancy. The chances are further reduced in those with fertility problems, even to this objective cannot be spontaneously in 15% of cases.

However, advances in assisted reproduction were able to reverse the fate of many. From birth in 1986 of the first IVF babies in Argentina until the present, assisted reproduction remained steady growth.

In less than 25 years, diagnosis, description of the various disorders that may affect reproduction, the selection of eggs and sperm and the implementation of assisted reproductive technology (including advances) allowed better results when implementing an action strategy.

Today is still possible to preserve fertility in cases where the woman must receive cancer treatments like chemotherapy or radiotherapy, to avoid the inheritance of disease from the selection of embryos, defer motherhood through the cry preservation of eggs and increasingly control more effectively the multiple gestation, “said Gabriel Fishbone, head of the Center for Reproductive Medicine in Gynecology and Reproduction Studies (Cagier).

However, the degree of effectiveness of these innovations also depends on a crucial variable: the age of the woman. Despite scientific advances, the female biological clock remains intact. “From the age of 35 fertility declines and increases the risk of genetic abnormalities in offspring,” said Fishbone.

That is why a couple does not realize that pregnancy after a year of searching should consult a reproductive specialist, a diagnosis and begin the necessary studies without further delay. Especially if it comes to women over the barrier of 35.

First is a history in which notes all the antecedents that may be related to the difficulty of achieving a pregnancy, for example, registration of sexually transmitted diseases, surgery, chronic problems, drug use, alcohol or cigarette.

Through control of temperature, hormone analysis and implementation of translational ultrasound, we studied whether the woman is ovulating normally. “Then there is a ray of the uterus and fallopian tubes called a hysterosalpingogram, which evaluates the path traveled by sperm and egg to meet,” he added.

Also important is the Gynecologic ultrasonography to rule out uterine fibroids that may affect the implantation or cause abortions.

The man, meanwhile, should be studied simultaneously, and that male problems represent 50% of cases. In this case seeks to establish if your semen is normal and if after intercourse, the sperm find the underlying cause of the uterus and cervix ascend. It is recommended to make a study of compatibility between sperm and cervical mucus as, of course; they must swim through the substance in his rise to the egg.

In one study, which cost about 300 thousand dollars and unique at the international level in Oaxaca, it was found that access to information on reproductive health, improving substantially the quality of life of adolescents in rural areas.

This was announced Sharon Bissell director of the Mexico office of the Macarthur Foundation sponsored the study, which he said took place over a period of five years between 2004, and 2008 in which the information was lifted in 27 rural communities in the Valleys Oaxaca’s central Slough, Santa Catalina and Minas Sumatran, Scotland, among others.

He explained that it was a great effort for the implementation of Care Model for Rural Adolescents (MARA) to know every year the progress of their knowledge and practices to protect themselves from sexually transmitted infections, the Virus of Inmudeficiencia (HIV) and avoid unwanted pregnancies.

It is one of the few studies of this type around the world about reproductive health among young people, because there is no rigorous research.

But he said there that global studies, which provide scientific information when and also promotes the exercise of rights and gender equity, helps to lower case by infections and early pregnancies.

He explained that the Macarthur Foundation is a nonprofit association that is dedicated to research on issues of sexuality and improving reproductive health and adolescent and maternal health to prevent high rates of morbidity and mortality.

In this context said that Oaxaca is one of the first places in terms of these public health problems.

This indicated that the foundation, sponsored this study because of the importance which involves working with young people about health products to support exercise their rights and promote their individual development which will not be cut short by health problems or unwanted pregnancies