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Story #2: Spain, Czechia, Denmark and Belgium are the meccas of reproductive tourism
Legal and age limits, and financial barriers in many European countries push thousands of people abroad to access assisted reproductive technology techniques (ART). In some cases, they have take out huge loans to pay for the treatments. The second part of Civio's investigation on ART in Europe provides an overview of the situation and reports the experiences of people who have sought and obtained access to ART abroad.
- A recent study reported that some 5% of European fertility care involves cross-border travel.
- The most common reasons for people seeking ART abroad are the multiple legal limits imposed in their home countries. But there are also other barriers, such as age limits or the number of cycles financed by public health systems.
- The most popular European destinations are Spain, Czechia, Denmark and Belgium. In 2019, Spanish fertility clinics carried out almost 20,000 treatment cycles for foreign people. Denmark performed more from 8,000 treatments for international patients, 21.69% of their total.
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EDJNet is a partner of the MATILDE Horizon 2020 project, a research project which looks at the economic and social impacts of migrations in rural and mountain areas across Europe. MATILDE is coordinated by the University of Eastern Finland. They have recently published their first report, we have built this article upon it:
Gianluca De Feo | OBC Transeuropa
Making use of quantitative data, the first MATILDE report offers an alternative vision to the highly mediatized and simplistic one that is often served to the public when it come to migration in rural and mountain areas .
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Grant Union Is Strength
'Union is Strength' is a journalistic project that aims to bring together young European journalists by inviting them to work together. After a round of selection, twenty teams made of a French and a European partner will have to propose two stories that will focus on an initiative developed within the country of each team member. The contest is open to all young journalists aged 30 at most who are EU nationals, and the selected teams will be paid 1500 euros for their work.
👉 Applications are open until 23:59 CET on 20 December 2021.
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