Over the last years the reality surrounding HIV-infection has undergone a considerable change with regard to the life expectancy of patients, and the plans they can make for their lives. Because the majority of the HIV positive population is of reproductive age, one of these plans might be to have children, often as an expression of a fulfilled partnership. The need for medical support to realize this wish, however, is often confronted with ethical, medical or forensic restraints. For this reason, interdisciplinary recommendations have now been developed--for the first time on a global basis--which aim to provide guidelines for practitioners in this complicated area.

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