SPERM AND HIV

Screening and prevention are two major weapons in the fight against AI DS. Procreation of couples where the spouse is seropositive poses a se rious ethical social and epidemiolomical problem. We have consequently established a list of the current biological data concerning HIV in t he sperm at the level of non germinal cells, seminal plasma and sperma tozoa and of the clinical data on the transmission of the virus during sexual intercourse and insemination. Finally, we have presented the r esults of the research on predictible factors of the infectiousness of sperm. After this analasis, we consider the possibilities open to the medical corps: dissuasion, ovulation monitoring, insemination with th e husband sperm, IVF and insemination with hope to be able to particip ate in the debate which must lead to a clear concerted and coherent po sition on the part of the medical corps, at least on a national level.