Bioethics Institute Ghent, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
Hum Reprod. 2009 Dec;24(12):3108-18. doi: 10.1093/humrep/dep300. Epub 2009 Sep 2.
Cross-border reproductive care indicates the cross-border movements made by patients to obtain infertility treatment they cannot obtain at home. The problem at present is that empirical data on the extent of the phenomenon are lacking. This article presents the data on infertility patients going to Belgium for treatment.
A survey was conducted among the centres for reproductive medicine that are allowed to handle oocytes and create embryos (B-centres). Data were collected on the nationality of patients and the type of treatment for which they attended during the period 2000-2007.
Sixteen of 18 centres responded to the questionnaire. The flow of foreign patients has stabilized since 2006 at approximately 2100 patients per year. The majority of foreign nationals seeking treatment in Belgium were French women for sperm donation. The next highest group was patients entering the country to obtain ICSI with ejaculated sperm.
There are clear indications that numerous movements are motivated by the wish to evade legal restrictions in one's home country, either because the technology is prohibited or because the patients have characteristics, which exclude them from treatment in their own countries.
跨境生殖保健是指患者跨境寻求国内无法获得的不孕治疗。目前的问题是缺乏对这一现象程度的经验数据。本文介绍了前往比利时接受治疗的不孕患者的数据。
对获准处理卵子和制造胚胎的生殖医学中心（B 中心）进行了调查。收集了 2000 年至 2007 年期间患者的国籍和治疗类型的数据。
18 个中心中有 16 个对问卷做出了回应。自 2006 年以来，外国患者的流动已稳定在每年约 2100 人左右。在比利时寻求治疗的外国国民中，大多数是寻求捐精的法国妇女。其次是入境国的患者，他们希望接受射出精子的 ICSI 治疗。
有明确迹象表明，许多人的流动是出于规避本国法律限制的愿望，这可能是因为技术被禁止，或者是因为患者的特征使他们在自己的国家无法接受治疗。
