Dr. Fernando Zegers-Hochschild  Director             Dr. Juan Enrique Schwarze  Clinical Associate	Carolina Musri  Administrator             Ricardo Montecinos  Computer Support
RLA Office                 Lo Fontecilla 441, Santiago, Chile.            Telefone: 56-2-6108181 / Fax: 56-2-6108167           E-mail: registro@redlara.com

The Latin American Registry of Assisted Reproduction (RLA) is part of the Latin American Network of Assisted Reproduction (REDLARA). Its main responsibility is to collect, analyze, and disseminate the results of Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART) procedures performed in centers that have been certified by REDLARA.

The main objectives of the RLA are :

• assess interventions in terms of their outcome .

• monitor trends on safety and efficacy among centers, countries and regions

• empower infertile couples in the evaluation of costs & benefits .

• robust data base for epidemiological studies and as external QC for individual centers .

The evaluation of these factors enables the board of directors to establish educational policies to be implemented through regional workshops and other educational activities .

Since its foundation in 1990, the RLA has published 17 written reports (see image below). The most recent publication includes information of ART procedures performed in 2007 by 138 centers from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela. At present we are gathering information corresponding to ART procedures initiated in 2007 in 141 centers certified by REDLARA .

The RLA is part of the International Committee Monitoring Assisted Reproduction Technology (ICMART) which collects and published worldwide data on ART .