Safe Conception for HIV Discordant Couples through Sperm-Washing: Experience and Perceptions of Patients in Milan, Italy

Reproductive Health Matters

Volumn 16, Issue 31, 2008, Pages 211-219

  Sunderam, Saswati ^a   Hollander, Lital ^b   Macaluso, Maurizio ^c   Vucetich, Alessandra ^b   Jamieson, Denise J ^c   Osimo, Ferruccio ^d   Duerr, Ann ^e   Semprini, Augusto Enrico ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^b ESMAN Medical Consulting   (Italy)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d Psychiatrist   (Italy)

^e Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

assisted conception; HIV serodiscordant couples; HIV sexual transmission; Italy; sperm washing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS SERODISCORDANT COUPLE; INFECTION RISK; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; ITALY; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SPERM; SPERM WASHING; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 44149110599     PISSN: 09688080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-8080(08)31342-1     Document Type: Article

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