Bibliographical note

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The beginning of ‘organized andrology’ in Europe dates back to 1968 when I initiated the European Andrology Group, supported by Schering AG ( Schirren & Toyosi, 1970 ). Independently, in 1970, a few clinicians and scientists interested in the development of andrology, from Barcelona, Spain, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, created the Comité Internaçional de Andrologia (CIDA), with Antoni Puigvert (Barcelona) and Roberto Mancini (Buenos Aires) elected as Presidents. The two groups learned about each other’s activities in 1970 when Mancini and I met at a Nobel Symposium on ‘Control of human fertility’ in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1972, CIDA arranged a meeting in Barcelona and I was elected as the next president. During CIDA’s initial years, financial support for its activities and congresses was provided by the Fundaçio Puigvert, run by an administrative board (Drs A. Aakvaag, W. Bardin, D. de Kretser, R. Eliasson and Miss M. Marti). was used as the official journal but it served also as the official publication for the German Society of Andrology. After the First International Congress of Andrology organized in Barcelona (1975), CIDA decided to create its own journal and the first volume of was published in 1978. Andrologia IJA

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