yup....agreed....sperm washing does the trick.

And yes, a HIV infected mum does not necessarily transmit to her baby for a few reasons. HIV is a very inefficient virus and thus does not ALWAYS spread, however the risk is always there as well. Secondly, by treating the mum with azidothymidine, u can reduce the transmission rate. This coupled with a Ceasarean section at birth and no breastfeeding can minimize the risk of transmission to almost negligible rates. hence the rationale for screening for HIV before marriage, and during antenatal follow up. There is much that can be done to save a baby from being infected by HIV

actually, guys IUI is not IVF. Intra uterine fertilization is the injection of sperm into the uterus of the woman and allowing fertilization to occur naturally as when you would do it via the conventional manner. Except in this case there is no penetration by the male organ and instead a device is used to place the sperm into the uterus where it would swim to meet the egg in the fallopian tube as per what usually would happen via penetration.

IVF on the other hand is in vitro fertilization. This is where the sperm and the egg are harvested from the donors and allowed to fertilize on a petri dish before the viable embryo is implanted back in the uterus.

Essentially the difference is the place of fertilization. And the common term test tube baby refers to IVF and not IUI.

In a father with AIDS or HIV, the sperm is washed and then placed in the female using IUI and not IVF.

And both IUI and IVF are not associated with any increased risk of down syndrome or congenital abnormalities. Essentially, there is an increased risk of miscarriage. Its the cost that is sometimes problematic, and it needs about 3 cycles for a successful pregnancy.

I mean the success rate of IVF is about 30%. That means that the first time u try, u got a 30% chance of being successful. If you try twice about 60%.

So in order to guarantee success, most ppl will have a successful pregnancy in the most 3 times. Some are lucky enough to get it the first time

yeah.....but some ppl are lucky to get it on the first time. Depends on how lucky you are i suppose.

actually no. to a certain extent fertility declines when u age but this probably applies when u are above 35, below that should be fine.

usually std's do not mutilate your body....lolz. thats just some scary stories ppl make up to stop young ppl form having sex. But you can die from an STD no doubt about that, so be safe.

AIDS can be a scary thing because it reduces your body's immunity and thus make you susceptible to infections or cancers that normal people would be immune or less susceptible to. This includes some rare skin cancers, which probably is the disfigurement u are talking about.

dude, for 1, you are right about the natural selection process, but even still, in IUI, that still does happen. Thats why its called intra uterine fertilization. Its not IVF where you select a sperm and an ovum and allow them to mix on a petri dish. Adequate amounts of semen and sperm are injected into the uterus and it travels towards the fallopian tube to fertilize the ovum in the body of the famale. So the weak ones do die off, the ones that swim backwards or swim sideways never get there and only the fittest survive. There is no evidence that IUI increases the rate of congenital abnormalities. It is probably that women who attempt IUI may already be in advanced age and thus may already be subject to an increased risk, whatever the method used.

Second, 3 cycles for a successful pregnancy is not absolutely rubbish. This is for IVF not IUI as above, because in IUI you have no problems with regards to implanting an embryo, nature takes its course. By the way. If your read carefully, i did not ever mention placing 3 fertilized embryos into the woman at once. And you do not insert 3 sperm into one ovum. Thats just weird. NO. You allow sperm and ova to mix on plenty of petri dishes and only one sperm will fertilize one ova. Then three to four fertilized embryo's are extracted. Only one is implanted into the woman at any one time. If you implant more than one, there is a risk of multiple pregnancy, but responsible docs only implants one at any one time, the rest are frozen for future use.

The woman is primed with hormones prior to implantation and then the fertilized embryo is implanted. However, per embryo implanted, the chance that it will complete gestation and come out as a baby is only 30%. In 60% of cases it may abort. Thus mathematical sense would tell you that if you want to guarantee successful pregnancy, you would have to have 3 cycles, but like i said, some people get it right the first time. If it fails the first time, the woman would again have to undergo the same process of priming and implantation of the second embryo, again the chance is 30%. and so on. It is time consuming and may take up many months.

So you need about 3 cycles and each cycle only implants one embryo so you cant get a twin or a triplet, unless the initial embryo itself splits to form identical twins, the rate of which is similar to a natural pregnancy.