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卵子の冷凍保存についての記事からです。
Chiba municipality to offer young women subsidies to freeze their eggs
CHIBA – A city in Chiba Prefecture plans to help young women freeze their eggs in the largest publicly funded project of its kind and one of the first aimed at healthy women rather than those facing sterility from chemotherapy.
The Urayasu Municipal Government will cooperate with Juntendo University Urayasu Hospital to extract eggs and freeze them to help address the nation’s declining birth rate.
The two organizations will formally announce the initiative on Thursday, sources said Friday.
In March, the hospital’s ethics committee approved freezing eggs from four women who are the first to take part.
Explorative work began last July to determine how such a program might work, and whether a publicly funded campaign might help address Japan’s low birthrate.
It is rare for a government body to subsidize the freezing of women’s eggs. Urayasu is budgeting \90 million over the three years to March 2018 to help potential mothers preserve eggs for future use.
The subsidies are available to female residents of the city aged 20 to 34, and the frozen eggs are intended to be used by the time they are 45.
A woman would typically pay \500,000 to \600,000 to have her eggs removed, frozen and preserved. The city will subsidize most of that sum, leaving women to cover about \100,000 of the total, a sum that includes the costs of injections and medication.
以下略
今回取り上げるのは、"address"です。
「住所」や、「(電子メールの)アドレス」などを思い浮かべると思います。
しかしここでは違う意味で使われています。
『ジーニアス英和辞典』第4版(大修館)で調べると、動詞で第4語義に、「(物・事)に焦点をあてる、的をしぼる、取り組む」や「(困難な状況、問題などに)立ち向かう、対処する、…を処理する」という意味がある事が分かりました。
今回の場合は、「卵子を冷凍保存させることで、少子化問題に対処する」と読み取れると思います。
過去に取り上げられたものをいくつか載せておきます。(Akim)
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