Infertility Policies Challenges in Reproductive Rights

Back ground: Infertility is an important public health issue. WHO, has announced that ‘‘Infertility generates disability, and thus access to health care falls under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability. Given the high cost of fertility treatment, many infertile couples in many countries go untreated or undertreated. There are few countries that have a legal mandate for counselling and supportive care in reproductive policies and prevention of infertility is a neglected issue. The aim of this study is attempted to evaluate the amount of implementation of reproductive rights in providing infertility services in selected countries.Methods/Design: A comparative policy analysis was conducted to understand the infertility programs, rules and policies in selected countries. Evidence was selected from 1994 until the end of 2018. The 12 indicators that were lastly selected allowed us to determine, for each country, a summary score indicating its relative status across all three areas:1) equity in utilization, 2) access to services and 3) service level.Results : After the primitive survey, the policies of the United Kingdom, United states, Turkey, Singapore, Ghana, Iran and Australia were preferred. The most exhaustive policies were providing in UK, Australia and Singapore.Discussion : A hypothesis is mention that, richer countries would, usually, have implemented more infertility policies than destitute countries. Another is mention that, if life expectancy and survival were valuable in a population, then appropriate policies for infertility will possibly be available and there may be forceful mechanisms for agenda setting. Major challenges in reproductive rights were, in providing preventive and supportive infertility care in communities where cultural, religious and social complexity will be existing and sexual health education.Conclusion : Access to infertility services varies everywhere the world and depends on many factors, including availability of facilities, religious or ethical considerations as well as affordability of treatment

Keywords:

infertility , policy , reproductive rights