Three Million Test Tube Babies Born So Far

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(Free-Press-Release.com) July 4, 2006 -- More than 3 million test tube babies have been born in the 28 years since the birth of the world's first, Louise Brown, an in vitro fertilization expert told a European fertility conference Wednesday.

About one million IVF treatments are administered worldwide each year, leading to about 200,000 babies annually, according to Jacques de Mouzon of the International Committee for Monitoring Assisted Reproductive Technologies.

One in six couples worldwide has a fertility problem, the Agence-France Presse news service reported of de Mouzon's findings.

IVF is most available in Israel and is least used in Latin America, the expert said. His findings were presented at a meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Prague.

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