In vitro clinic opens in Bulawayo

In vitro fertilisation (IVF) clinic has been opened in Bulawayo, the second such health facility in the country to offer services to couples faced with infertility. IVF is the fertilisation of a woman’s eggs outside her body in a laboratory, resulting in what has been termed a test tube baby.

The first fertility centre to be established in Zimbabwe in the 1980s is at the Avenues Clinic in Harare and more than 50 people, some of them now adults were conceived there. The Harare clinic closed its doors in 2004 and re-opened last year. The Bulawayo Assisted Reproductive Technology (BART) centre opened its doors last December and has brought hope to couples who are struggling to have children.

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