healthy children birthVery good news and a few years ago would have been unthinkable. More than 400 men with HIV or hepatitis have been able to be parents of healthy children by washing seminal in ten years.

This technique is eliminated from plasma as any infectious cell present in semen, thus obtaining motile sperm useful for fertility treatments.

In the eighties, people infected with HIV virus, hepatitis or other viral illnesses who wanted to have children had to resort to adoption if they did not transmit the virus to the woman or child.

In the nineties, however, comes to Spain sperm washing technique for obtaining useful motile sperm fertility treatments, thus making these men have an opportunity to be parents.

“Sperm washing is performed on all patients who undergo assisted reproduction techniques, but in the case of HIV or hepatitis is practiced in more detail and precision.

In fact, laboratories need a special booth to avoid infection, so we work in another room and extreme hygiene measures. “Says Dr. Vincent Badajoz, coordinator of the Clinical Laboratory Ginefiv.

Seminal washing is a technique that is nearly 100% effective, although, according to Dr. Badajoz “if the patient has a very high viral load is likely that washing is not as effective.

Normally, if the blood viral load is very high discard the patient for IVF. But it is a small percentage of cases and that antiretroviral treatment the patient now has a higher quality of life and illness under control. “

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