IVF in Nigeria

NIGERIA RECORDS FIRST BABY FROM FROZEN EGG

Nigeria has recorded the first successful birth of a baby conceived from frozen egg of a 44 year-old woman, who had suffered infertility for eight years, making it the first in the country and West Africa. The birth and conception of the baby, named Tiwatope, which is the 5001st in the world, was carried out by Nigerian fertility specialists at The Bridge Clinic, a Lagos-based fertility treatment centre, where the mother had her eggs frozen using the vitrification (flash-freezing) process. The birth of the baby on February 16, 2016, effectively puts Nigeria on the global map as regards the practice of oocyte (egg) freezing or cryopreservation, a new offering in the in-vitro fertilization (IVF) process. Prior to the birth of Tiwatope, the new practice seemed to be the exclusive preserve of the developed world of Europe and North America.

1st Test Tube Baby in Black Africa is now 30 years old
On March 17, 1989 history was made at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital when the first test tube Baby in Black Africa (comprising of West, East and Central Africa), conceived through the delicate In-Vitro Fertilisation and Embryo Transfer (IVF-ET) method was born. The bouncing baby boy named, Olushina, Eghosa, Oluwaremilekun, is nature’s gift to the family of Mr & Mrs Pius Oni and the crowning glory of five years of painstaking research endeavours of Professors Osato Giwa-Osagie, an Obstetrician and Gynecologist and Oladapo Ashiru, an Endocrinologist, both of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH Idiaraba, Surulere, Lagos.The lad then, thus, became the First TestTube Baby in East, West and Central Africa. Read more at: www.ivfhistorynigeria.blogspot.com

Monday, November 16, 2020

40 couples get Ibidunni Ighodalo Foundation IVF grants

The Chairman of the foundation, Pastor Ituah Ighodalo explained that Project 40at40, which was launched on July 19, 2020, was targeted at easing the financial burden of parents in need of assisted reproduction, He said, “This is what prompted the late Ibidunni to set up this foundation – the large number of people going through fertility-related challenges, and the fact that treatments are in the millions, which many cannot afford.’’

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

68-year-old woman gives birth to twins in Lagos

A 68-year-old woman has delivered a set of twins, at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, following an IVF conception.

Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday, Prof. Wasiu Adeyemo, Chairman, LUTH Medical Advisory Committee (CMAC), said the woman was pregnant for the first time.

Adeyemo said that she was delivered on April 14 through an elective Caesarean section, at 37 weeks gestation.

FULL STORY AT http://www.ivfnewsnigeria.blogspot.com

Sunday, January 13, 2019

University of Port Harcourt records first successful IVF

UPTH IVF baby

The University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, UPTH, has recorded success in In-Vitro Fertilisation, IVF, after two years of establishment of the department. Read More at https://ivfnewsnigeria.blogspot.com/2019/01/university-of-port-harcourt-records.html

Saturday, October 6, 2018

Make informed decisions when seeking treatment

Dr. Abayomi Ajayi - fertility expert
When you’re exploring fertility treatment, it’s difficult to know where to start. There’s so much information out there and it’s hard to know which sources you can trust. If you are having trouble becoming pregnant, first thing to admit is that you’re not alone.
READ MORE AT: https://ivfclinicsnigeria.blogspot.com/

Sunday, March 6, 2016

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Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Working Women Chronicles: Okiki Marinho Shares On Her IVF Experience

Friday, October 9, 2015

LUTH Reopens IVF Clinic

The Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi Araba, has revived its Assisted Reproductive Clinic. It folded up in the 90s due to lack of funding. Now known as LUTH Assisted Fertility Clinic (AFC), the duo of Professors Osato Giwa-Osagie and Oladapo Ashiru, pioneered the clinic that produced the first test tube baby in Nigeria in March 1986.
MORE AT: http://www.ivfnewsnigeria.blogspot.com

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

NIGERIA'S IVF UNITS

Thursday, July 16, 2015

NIGERIA'S CLINICS

Friday, February 6, 2015

IVF NIGERIA MILESTONES

Saturday, May 4, 2013

ADVICE, OVERVIEW & CONTACT INFO BELOW:

The IVF Units at a Glance:
*Ark *Ayomide *Balm of Gilead *Bridge *Bridgestone *Care *Charitos BO *DEDA *DIFF *DOTE *EKO *El Rapha *Fertigold *Fertil Aid *Fusion Nest *Georges *Grabbo *Grigg *Gynescope *Hope Valley *Iye *Kingscare *Kingswill *LASUTH *Life *Lifelink *Lifepoint *Lifeshore *Lily *LouisMed *LUTH *MART *Medimax *Medison *Midland *M&M *National *Nisa Premier *Nobel *Nordica *Olivebranch *Omni *Paramount *Prime *Regenesis *Roding *Ruz *Save a Life *Shepherd *St Augustine *St Ives *Trucare *UBTH *Vine Branch & counting...
ADVICE:'IVF IN NIGERIA' DOES NOT ENDORSE ANY INDIVIDUAL DOCTOR OR CLINIC AND ADVISES WOULD-BE PATIENTS TO ENDEAVOUR TO VERIFY ANY CLAIMS BEFORE COMMITMENT.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

IVF CLINICS IN NIGERIA

You do not need to travel abroad for standard IVF treatment as it is now available in Nigeria at a fraction of what it would cost you abroad.

You save on air fare and hotel bills and the success rates are comparable with those of clinics overseas. Plus, you are likely to get more suitable egg donors in the country, if you happen to need them. Nigerians resident abroad also find it cost effective to make the trip back, for IVF treatment.

Today, there are over 60 IVF clinics and counting in Nigeria (mostly located in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial centre). After the birth of Nigeria’s 1st test tube baby, an event led by the Dapo Ashiru-Giwa-Osagie team in 1989, there was no follow-up in this field until years later with the establishment of some private IVF clinics.
Although relatively few in number (India has over 3000), these clinics offer value for money and an increasing number of them can boast of many success stories. It must be stressed however that the number of women actually treated in each clinic, their set up dates and the take home baby rates, must be taken into consideration when trying to assess their success rates.

In making a choice of clinic for IVF treatment, you can always go with the recommendation of your GP but you will be better off knowing what your options are, as set out in the following list.
THE CONTACT INFO OF NIGERIA'S IVF CLINICS - ALSO ALPHABETICALLY LISTED AT A GLANCE ABOVE, ARE SET OUT BELOW. THERE IS AS YET NO NIGERIAN BODY SUCH AS BRITAIN’S HFEA (AN INDEPENDENT REGULATORY BODY THAT LICENSES FERTILITY CLINICS), TO VERIFY ANY CLAIMS OF SUCCESS RATES.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

* Ayomide Clinic

*Ayomide Women’s Health Specialist Hospital &Fertility (IVF) Centre
30, Gate 2, Powerstation, Powerline,

Ikirun Road, Opp. Dayus Petrol Station,
Oshogbo, Osun State
Tel: 08161832528 ; 07060916229
Email: ayomidefert@gmail.com

Website: http://www.ayomidefert.com

Medical Director: Dr. Johnson Komolafe

Set up date: February 2010

1^st IVF Cycle: March 19, 2012.

*Balm AJEC Fertility Hospital Limited

(Balm of Gilead Fertility Centre)
Oke - Opo, GRA; Opposite NNPC petrol Station,
Off Ayeso Road,
Ilesha, Osun state.
Telephone: +234-8037151125, +234-8033567495
Website: www.balmajec.com
Medical Director: Dr. Alexander T. Owolabi

*Bridge Clinic
Dr. Ajayi

Plot 1397A Tiamiyu Savage Street,
Victoria Island, Lagos.
Tel: 01-2623268 ; 2610686
Email: bridge@om.metrong.com ; info@thebridgeclinic.com
Website: www.thebridgeclinic.com
Medical Director: Dr. Richardson A. Ajayi

Ikeja Centre:
63 Oduduwa Crescent,
Ikeja G.R.A,
Lagos.
Tel: 07028806815 ; 01-4485401-2

Port Harcourt Centre:
41A Evo Road,
G.R.A Phase II, Port Harcourt.
Tel: 084-465 003 – 5

Kaduna Centre:
26 Kinshasa Road,
Ungwa Rimi GRA,
Kaduna North, Kaduna State
Tel: 00234- (84) 0819 140 2315

Set up date: 1999

*Care Fertility Hospital

1, Angas Way, Before FEPA Quarters,

Karu site, Abuja, Nigeria

Tel: 080 6424 4977 ; 08074197037

Email: mail@care-fertility.org

Website: http://www.care-fertility.org

Medical Director: Dr. John Okechukwu Ene

*Charitos BO

Dr. Benprosper Onoja

Plot D22, Aco Estate,

Opp. Godab Estate,

Life Camp,

Abuja FCT.

Telephone: +234 8141911401 ; 09084858040

Email: enquires@charitosbo.com

Website: http://www.charitosbo.com

Medical Director: Dr. Benprosper Onoja

*DEDA Hospital

*Care Fertility Hospital

Dr. John Ene

Angas Way, Before FEPA Quarters,
Karu site, Abuja, Nigeria
Tel: 080 6424 4977 ; 08074197037
Email: mail@care-fertility.org
Website: http://www.care-fertility.org
Medical Director: Dr. John Okechukwu Ene

*DEDA Hospital

6, 442 Crescent,
Off 4th Avenue,

Dr. Omale Onuh

Citec Villas,
Gwarimpa, Abuja
Tel:+234 (0) 818 422 7707; (0) 813 3111128
Email: info@dedahospital.com, dedahospital@yahoo.com

Website: http://dedahospital.com/

Medical Director: Dr. Sunday Omale Onuh

*DIFF Hospital
Dr. Idahosa

6 Udi Hills Close

Aso-Drive,

Maitama, Abuja

Tel: DA Office: 09-2908426 ; Reception: 09-2906387 ; Nurses Station: 09-2906387 ;

E-mail: info@diffhospital.com

Website: http://www.diffhospital.com

Medical Director: Dr. John O. Idahosa

*Dote Medical Centre

Dr. Efetie
Plot 20,

Block 5, Setraco, Gwarinpa Estate
Area 11
Garki, Abuja Municipal
Abuja
Tel: 08033118171 ; 08079328287
Email: efenae@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.doteivfabuja.net
Fertility Consultant: Dr. Efena Efetie

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

*Eko Hospital Fertility Centre

*EKO Hospital Fertility Centre
Dr. Ogunmokun

Tel: 01-4978800-9

E-mail:

Website: http://www.ekohospitals.com

Chief Medical Officer: Dr. Adegbite Ogunmokun

START UP DATE: 2009. 4 babies, 11 ongoing pregnancies to date. 36% success rate.

Cut off treatment age: 55

*Fertigold

Dr. Olajide Wilson

9 College Road

Ifako-Ogba

Ikeja Lagos

Telephone: 08179109375, 08185517417, 08095610992, 08093330782

E-mail: info@fertigoldfertilityclinic.com

Website: http://www.fertigoldclinic.com

Head of Operations: Dr. Olajide Wilson

*Fusion Nest Fertility Centre
Dr. Soyinka

3, Adebowale Close, Off Lola Holloway,

Omole Phase 1, Ogba, Lagos.

Tel: +234 8022514723 ; 08156979893 ; 08187929978

E-mail: contact@fusionnestng.com
Website: http://www.fusionnestng.com
Medical Director: Dr. Soyinka

START UP DATE: 2012

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

*George's Memorial Medical Center

*George's Memorial Medical Center
Dr. Iketubosin

6, Rasheed Alaba Williams Street,
Off Admiralty Way,
Lekki Phase One, Lagos.
Tel: 01-2715320
Email: info@georgesmedical.com
Website: www.georgesmedical.com
Medical Director: Dr. Faye Iketubosin

*Gynescope Specialist Hospital

Dr. Okohue
1, Mini Ezeku Street,

Rumuogba,
Portharcourt,
Rivers State.

Telephone: +234-08037275377; 08166593030
Email: info@gynescopesh.com; drjude@gynescopesh.com
Website: http://www.gynescopesh.com
Medical Director: Dr. Jude Ehiabhi Okohue

Monday, October 5, 2009

*Hope Valley Clinic

*Hope Valley Clinic
Dr. Ogunkoya
Plot 31, Block 113 Oladimeji Alo Sreet,
Opposite Treasure Gardens,
Lekki 3rd round-about or Ikate round about.
Lagos Epe expressway, Lagos.
Tel: 08088753061, 08033069466
Email: info@thehopevalleyclinic.org
Website: http://www.thehopevalleyclinic.net/

Medical Director: Dr. Olugbenga Ogunkoya

· KADUNA CENTRE
2, Angola Road,
Opp Shagari Housing Estate
Barnawa, Kaduna state.
Tel 07035903551, 08033069466.
Email: info@thehopevalleyclinic.org

· BENIN CENTRE
7B Behind no 7, Eguadase Street,
off Akpakpava Road,
Benin Edo State.
Tel. 08033069466, 08050240728.
Email: info@thehopevalleyclinic.org

· ABUJA CENTRE
Within Zankil Medical Centre,
Plot 1021, B5 Sheu Yarâ€™Adua Way,
Opposite Fed Ministry of Works
Utako District, Abuja.
Email: info@thehopevalleyclinic.org

· PORT HARCOURT CENTRE
14 Trans Woji Road, by Slaughter,
Woji Port Harcourt. Rivers State.
Tel 07039179885, 08033069466.
Email: info@thehopevalleyclinic.org

· 01-2713897, 01-4618990 01-4618989, 08033069466

· 01-4447178

*Iye Hospital
Dr. K.S. Kupolati

22, Osibodu Layout,

Ibadan-Lagos Express,
Challenge, Ibadan,Oyo,
Tel: 08037143851; 2310792
Email: juyikupolati@yahoo.co.uk, iyehospital@yahoo.com, info@iyeho.com
Website: http://www.iyehospital.com

Medical Director: Dr. K.S. Kupolati

Kings Care Kingsway Clinics Life Specialist Hospital Lily Fertility Centre

*King's Care
Dr. Abu Humphrey

Plot 2181, Ibrahim Babangida Way

Wuse II, Abuja.

7, Christmas Road, behind Police Affairs Quarters,
Phase 4, Kubwa, Abuja

Telephone: +234-9523552-4 ; +234-95235515

Email: info@kingscarehospital.org

Website: www.kingscarehospital.org

Chief Medical Director: Dr. Alasa Abu Humphrey

Portharcourt Center:

17B Ahaimakara Road,Transamadi Industrial Layout Road,Portharcourt.
Telephone: 084: 578956 ; 08037048134 ; 08033069466

*Kingswill Specialist Hospital

Dr. Kingsley Ike Onwuzurigbo

3, Ayinuola Close

18b Rafiu Babatunde Tinubu Road

(By Apple Junction)

Amuwo Odofin, Lagos

Telephone: 08129839839; 08037077694

Email: info@kingswillspecialisthospital.com

Website: http://www.kingswillspecialisthospital.com

Medical Director: Dr. Kingsley Ike Onwuzurigbo

*Lifelink Fertility Centre

27, Oladipo Bateye Street,

GRA Ikeja, Lagos

Telephone: +234 803 308 3580, +234 809 383 4703

Email: info@lifelinkfertility.com

Website: http://www.lifelinkfertility.com

CMD/CEO: Dr. Kemi Ailoje

*Lifeshore Clinics

Dr. Orebamiji

Plot 13, Rasaq Balogun Street,

Off Adeniran Ogunsanya Street,

Surulere, Lagos.

Telephone: 09090009002;

09090009003; 09090009004

Email: enquiries@thelifeshoreclinics.com

Website: http://www.thelifeshoreclinics.com

Medical Director: Dr. Taiwo O. Orebamiji

*Life Specialist Hospital, Nnewi
Prof. Ikechebelu

7 Ikemba Drive

Umuele-Umudim

Nnewi

Anambra State

Tel: 080-404-4189, 046-309471

Email:info@lifehospital.org, lifehospital@yahoo.com,
jikechebelu@yahoo.com

Website: http://lifehospital.org/lifehospital/aboutus.html

Medical Director: Professor Joseph Ifeanyichukwu Ikechebelu

*Lily Fertility Centre

6 Brisbe Street,
Off Etuwewe Road
Off Deco Road, Warri
Delta State.

Telephone: 234-8039637765, 234-7092010621

E-mail: contact@lilyhospitals.com

Website: http://lilyhospitals.com/lily-fertility-centre/

Directors: Dr Okogun Austin (Medical Director/CEO), Dr Alekwe Louis (Diagnostics), Dr Onuwaje Mayomi (Clinical Services)
START UP DATE: 2008 By 2010: 98 procedures; 52 pregnancies (27 chemical; 25 clinical with live births)

IVF IN OTHER CLIMES

Fertility Centre Now In Asaba

Couples with infertility conditions can now heave sighs of relief as one of nigeria’s leading fertility treatment centres, Nordica, will officially open its new facility on Erhuvwu Club Street, Asaba, Delta State, on November 3 2009.
The event will start with a week long programme, which includes for a for doctors and nurses, fertility walk and an open day for free discussions and checks.
Since inception Nordica Fertility Centre has helped many infertile couples to conceive and get delivered of over 300 babies.

'Infertility Is A Shared Responsibility Between Husband And Wife'...More at: http://www.ivfbabiesnigeria.blogspot.com

Worthy of Note:

· Birth of Nigeria’s very first IVF baby recorded by LUTH in 1989 through team including Profs. Osato Giwa-Osagie & Dapo Ashiru. LUTH’s IVF programme was not sustained. Birth of IVF baby Hannatu recorded 9 years later in February 1998 in Abuja.
· Nigeria’s oldest IVF clinic (1999): Bridge Clinic, Lagos. As at 2009, has produced about 923 babies. Also recorded nation’s 1st ICSI & TESA pregnancies.
· First & only so far, African IVF clinic to record successful pregnancy in 45 year-old woman using her own eggs: Hope Valley Clinic, Lagos.
· Only IVF facility currently offering PGD: Medical ART Centre, Lagos.
· First IVF clinic in West Africa to record pregnancy in woman with Turner’s Syndrome: Omni Advanced Fertility Centre, Lagos.
· Only Teaching Hospital in Nigeria currently offering IVF: University of Benin Teaching Hospital.

HOW TO IMPROVE IVF SUCCESS

There are a few factors you can influence in increasing your chances with IVF. Eat well, exercise, get enough sleep and reduce stress in your life among other things.

However, the most important factor to increase your IVF success is your decision in choosing a fertility clinic. Once you choose a fertility clinic, the outcome of your IVF treatment is mostly in the hands of the fertility doctor and his staff. They choose the IVF protocol, the medication with dosages and all the little details concerning timing, which you will follow exactly. That's why you should consider comparing their IVF success rates! It gives you an indication of a fertility clinic's skill and expertise. So, be good to your body and wise in your decision of your IVF doctor!

Hannatu is not Nigeria’s first IVF baby

We have observed that for some time now there have been series of reports by Dr. Ibrahim Wada in the dailies celebrating the 10th birthday anniversary of his first IVF baby.
In your publication of Saturday April 11, 2009, it was stated that Baby Hannatu, who was delivered by Dr Ibrahim Wada at Gwagwalada Specialist Hospital 10 years ago, is Nigeria’s First IVF Baby.

That statement is incorrect and very false. It attempts to reverse the course of history. About three years ago, another doctor reported having the first IVF baby in Lagos and we had to educate the newspaper that reported it. It is very important for our reporters to do some research, especially when reporting matters of national importance and history. It is also necessary that our professional colleague should give honour to whom it is due and not rewrite history.

At the gala night celebrating Baby Hannatu’s birthday at the Sheraton Hotel, Abuja in March 2009, Prof Giwa-Osagie informed the dignitaries at the occasion about the true chronology of IVF successes in Nigeria. Those present to hear him included Baby Hannatu, her parents, Dr Wada himself, the Minister of Women Affairs and General Momah who was the Minister of Science and Technology and had certified Baby Hannatu’s birth at the time, and two former chief justices of Nigeria.

IVF in Nigeria began with a team at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), comprising Prof Giwa-Osagie, Prof Ashiru, Dr Abisogun, Mr. Sanyaolu and Mr. Aro. They started IVF work in 1983 and had the first pregnancy from IVF in West and East Africa in 1984. That pregnancy was documented but miscarried. However in 1989, the team had delivery of a baby girl from its efforts. It is note worthy that most of the current actors in IVF at this point were resident doctors in training. The mother of Baby O had lost both her fallopian tubes from ectopic pregnancies in the UK and became pregnant at her first IVF attempt in Nigeria. The achievement was well documented and was carried prominently in the media at the time. LUTH even produced a special news magazine that had the baby and his parents’ pictures and details.

The journalists who carried the news included Lade Bonuola, Onajomo Orere from the Guardian newspaper, and Loiusa Aguiyi-Ironsi from Tell magazine. They are still alive and well for easy reference. After too much publicity, the family of Baby O later got their lawyer to write us stating that LUTH or we should not discuss the baby any further. We were also restrained by the Nigerian Medical and Dental Council tribunal, which alleged that we were advertising ourselves through undue publication of our work in IVF. We still have these documents.

It is important to state that about 90 per cent of women who have babies through IVF do not want it publicised, even up till now. If you visit our clinics, you will see pictures of babies born through IVF.

However, that is as far as most of these parents want to go public. We admire the parents of Hannatu for willing to go public, but that does not make Hannatu Nigeria’s first IVF baby.

Also, in the 1980s, there was no Ministry of Science and Technology, and there is still till no requirement for that ministry to authenticate any IVF delivery. In the 1980s, the Federal Ministry of Health set up two panels to evaluate the LUTH IVF work, under the late Prof Grillo and Prof Adeleye respectively. Both panels reported that the LUTH team’s work was genuine and correct.

The fact that Dr Wada got the Ministry of Science and Technology to authenticate his work at the time of his first IVF baby cannot invalidate prior major breakthrough in Nigerian IVF success.
Prof. Giwa-Osagie, OON and Prof. Oladapo Ashiru, OFR.