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Be Better Informed About Fertility. Giving voice to citizens towards improving assisted reproduction technologies for society (B2-Inf). (B2-Inf)

B2-InF promotes Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and public participation in the field of Assisted Reproduction Technologies (ART), in order to align its scientific exercise and dissemination with the knowledge, concerns and expectations of populations (18-30 year-old) in Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Macedonia, Albania, Slovenia and Kosovo. How? 1) By collecting, analyzing and transferring social scientific knowledge, expectations, and concerns about ART to clinics and policymakers and 2) by improving the scientific information offered by ART clinics to society from sociocultural, legal and gender perspectives through recommendation guidelines. B2-InF's target population is young people aged 18 to 30 who are childless and have not yet considered having offspring or experienced the need for ART, and therefore are not yet conscious of their fertility needs. Members of this population are referred to as "not patients" or "young population." B2-InF defines ART to include every procedure that involves manipulation of gametes to achieve pregnancy in the treatment of infertility. B2-InF also follows World Health Organization's definition of infertility: "lack of conception following one year of unprotected sexual intercourse."
Date:1 Nov 2020 →  31 Oct 2023
Keywords:FERTILITY
Disciplines:Family planning, Reproductive medicine, Bioethics
Project type:Collaboration project