How did the EU-backed reproductive programme ReproUnion come about?

Euronews gets the lowdown from ReproUnion's Project Manager, Kristine Koppelhus.

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00:00 This EU-backed project started 10 years ago, but how did it come about and how many birds

00:07 are needed to prevent population decline? Christine Kupelhus, Repro Union`s project

00:14 lead, tells us more.

00:19 So actually the project was initiated in 2010 by two friends. They were also doctors and

00:26 researchers, one from the Danish side and one from the Swedish side. And they worked

00:32 with infertility for men and they wanted to do more for couples with problems with the

00:39 reproductive health. It is one of the most common diseases for people from 25 to 45 years

00:46 of age and it`s increasing. This is also more general, also for many European countries

00:55 the fertility is going down. And we need to have more than two children per woman in order

01:02 to sustain the population that we have today. And this is what we see in many countries

01:07 in Europe.

01:09 The Rubik cohort, which is very unique, I believe that it is the only place in Europe

01:16 where we have a bi-national cohort of infertile couples. So it would be really amazing if

01:24 we could also start collecting these data from other countries. And in addition it would

01:30 be very good to also have collection of data from fertile couples, so that we both have

01:37 data on the healthy population in combination with infertility problems.

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