Romerico Torres will be the new ASPIRE correspondent from the Philippines succeeding Dr Virgilio Novero. He is Assistant Professor in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Far Eastern University Institute of Medicine, a specialist in reproductive medicine and minimally invasive gynaecological surgery at the Veterans’ Memorial Medical Centre in Quezon City, and a visiting consultant [...]
Fertility procedures have steadily increased, and we are approaching pre-pandemic levels. An eighth IVF centre was recently accredited to accommodate the increasing demand for fertility treatments. The growing awareness of assisted reproductive technology has generated a need for country specific information. As such, our Special Interest Groups (SIGs) have been tapped to provide data [...]
Officials at the Pakistan National Institute of Health have warned of the risk of a sixth COVID-19 wave due to a slight increase in new infections in recent weeks. However, the Government is taking necessary steps to keep the situation under control. The daily infection rate registered a sharp decline from the peak of [...]
Introducing Dr Emily Liu Country Representative Dr Emily Liu is the new ASPIRE country representative for New Zealand taking over this important role from Professor Neil Johnson. Emily is well known among members as a winner of the ASPIRE Young Investigator Award at our Congress in Taipei in 2018. Her presentation was on a [...]
The history of IVF in Nepal dates back to July 2004, twenty-six years after the birth of the world’s first “test tube baby” Louise Brown in England. Om Hospital & Research Centre in Nepal opened its first IVF facility in 2004. Om Mani Tamang, the first IVF baby of Rajendra and Sandhya Tamang, was [...]
Early this year the Japanese government announced a dramatic decline in the national birth rate. The long-term forecast is for the population to drop to 47.71 million in 100 years from its peak of 127.84 million in 2004. Such a fall would make the predicted 2100 Japanese population equivalent to the number of inhabitants [...]
COVID-19 continues to be prevalent in Indonesia with new variants of Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 in the community. According to recent data, more than six million people were suffering from the Omicron variant. Some couples experiencing infertility were also exposed to new variants of COVID19 infection before they entered ART programs. The government has [...]
COVID restrictions in Hong Kong have been relaxed since April, but the government has implemented a vaccine pass. This means that since 1 June 2022 all citizens are required to have a third vaccination dose before entering public areas including shopping malls, restaurants, hospitals and government buildings. Medical exemptions apply for some people under [...]
Last year China consolidated COVID-19 control outcomes through effective response measures. By the end of 2021, more than five billion doses of COVID- 19 vaccines had been produced, and the domestic immunization campaign had progressed smoothly to cover 1.2 billion people. Updated COVID-19 prevention and control guidelines were implemented on June 28, 2022 taking [...]
The Fertility and Sterility Society of Bangladesh (FSSB) organised a webinar entitled Management of Infertility: Country Perspective on 26 June 2022 to mark World Infertility Awareness Month. Two eminent ASPIRE members joined the webinar as keynote speakers. ASPIRE President, Professor T. C. Li, presented on management of infertility from a Hong Kong perspective and [...]
