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RHO archives : Topics : Infertility
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Updated: May 11, 2004
Listed below are useful web resources specific to infertility in low-resource settings.
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Nonprofit organizations
American Society for Reproductive
Medicine (ASRM)
www.asrm.org/
ASRM is a professional organization with an international membership, consisting
primarily of physicians and other health professionals. Infertility is
a major area of interest. ASRM sponsors a journal, meetings, and courses
for its members as well as this web site. The web site offers educational
materials and services designed for patients, health professionals, and
media professionals. It includes the policy statements, minimum standards,
and practice guidelines promulgated by ASRM Practice and Ethics Committees.
Changemakers
www.changemakers.net/journal/01june/index.cfm
The June 2001 issue of Changemakers.net spotlights the struggle of women
unable to bear children in societies that deny such women economic, social,
and ritual status. The issue features the work of two social entrepreneurs
in India and Zimbabwe who are helping childless women gain status, access
to education, reproductive health care, and helping them find ways to support
each other while building a greater awareness of these issues through outreach
and media programs. They are part of a worldwide movement to redefine reproductive
health care delivery programs to include a broader range of women's concerns.
InterNational Council on Infertility
Information Dissemination (INCIID)
www.inciid.org/
The most comprehensive of all infertility resources online, INCIID is a
non-profit educational organization dedicated to providing comprehensive
and timely information on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of infertility
over the Internet. While its primary audience is infertile couples, INCIID
also provides information of interest to the health professional. It offers
detailed fact sheets on specific causes, diagnoses, and treatments of infertility;
interactive bulletin boards moderated by medical experts; news about infertility
technologies and treatments; an international calendar of infertility seminars,
conferences, and meetings; and links to other online infertility resources.
Resolve
www.resolve.org
This public education and advocacy group provides support and information
to individuals suffering from infertility in the U.S. The site offers advice
on deciding whether one is suffering from an infertility problem, selecting
an infertility specialist, finding a support group, and locating information
online.
World Health Organization
(WHO)
www.who.int/hrp/about/index.html
WHO sponsored the largest study on the epidemiology of infertility and has
created a standardized approach to the diagnosis of infertile couples.
The prevention of infertility is one of the current objectives of WHO's
reproductive health program (HRP). The program's focus is on improving the
diagnosis and treatment of reproductive tract infections in order to limit
the tubal damage and subsequent infertility associated with these infections.
Current initiatives by the Technology Development & Assessment component
include the development of a simple, inexpensive kit for the diagnosis of
gonorrhea and other STIs and research into a vaccine against chlamydia.
Commercial clinics
Abington Reproductive
Medicine
www.abington-repromed.com/publish2.html
Abington Reproductive Medicine is a private clinic offering comprehensive
infertility services to couples in the United States. In this article,
one of its physicians reviews current research on a wide variety of environmental
and behavioral factors that may reduce female fertility, including nutrition,
exercise, stress, pollutants, smoking, and drugs.
The Beach Center
www.beachcenter.com/
The Beach Center for Infertility, Endocrinology, and IVF is a private clinic
offering comprehensive infertility services to couples in the United States.
Its web site describes the various medical and surgical procedures used
to diagnose and treat infertility, including assisted reproduction techniques.
Billings Family Life Centre
www.billings-centre.ab.ca
The Billings Family Life Centre is an Australian-based organization that
disseminates the Billings Ovulation Method of natural family planning to
couples around the world.Information on this site describes how couples
having difficulty in conceiving can use the Billings Method to recognize
when a woman is fertile and thus maximize the chances of conception. The
site includes the names and addresses of its many international affiliates.
Fertility Center of New England,
Inc . www.fertilitycenter.com/
The Fertility Center of New England is a private clinic offering comprehensive
infertility services to couples in the United States. Their web site offers
an overview of the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of both male and
female infertility, with a focus on assisted reproductive technology.
Infertility Friends
www.drmalpani.com/support.htm
Infertility Friends is an Indian-based support group for infertility. This
clinic-sponsored support group is run by infertile couples and provides
a forum for couples to share their experiences and gain support. The website
offers general infertility information, answers to frequently asked questions,
and provides descriptions of clinic services
IVF.com—Georgia Reproductive
Specialists
www.ivf.com/fert.html
This site is maintained by Georgia Reproductive Specialists, a private clinic
offering comprehensive infertility services to couples in the United States.The
site offers a huge amount of information about the diagnosis and treatment
of infertility in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish, including
the book Miracle Babies Online by Mark Perloe.Topics covered include
ovulation and hormonal disorders, male factor infertility, reproductive
surgery and tubal infertility, advanced reproductive technologies, miscarriage
and recurrent pregnancy loss, and adoption. There is also a multimedia
image gallery with videos of surgical techniques and photos of both normal
and abnormal pelvic anatomy, as well as a glossary and links to chat rooms,
organizations, and journals.
Resources
FertiNet
www.ferti.net
FertiNet disseminates information about assisted fertilization techniques
to both patients and professionals. The general section includes extensive
information on the causes and treatment of infertility and lists infertility
groups and sources of treatment in more than four dozen countries around
the world, including many developing nations. The scientific section includes
monthly issues of Ferti magazine, lists conferences, summarizes research
news, and provides product information.
Internet Health Resources
Company
www.ihr.com/infertility/
The Internet Health Resources web site provides a wide variety of information
on infertility for both infertile couples and health care professionals.
Resources for professionals include access to newsletters and journals,
companies that supply infertility clinics, upcoming conferences and seminars,
research and treatment information, and subject matter experts. The site
also carries educational articles on the causes, diagnosis, and treatment
of infertility as well as financial, legal, psychological, and social issues.
It includes links to service providers and other resources.
New
York Online Access to Health (NOAH)
www.noah-health.org/english/pregnancy/fertility.html
NOAH is an bilingual health information site (available in English and Spanish)
mounted by the City University of New York, the Metropolitan New York Library
Council, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the New York Public Library.
Its goal is to offer consumers accurate, timely, relevant, and unbiased
health information assembled from a variety of reputable sources. NOAH has
a large section on fertility and infertility, with many links to other sites
on the web.
World Wide Infertility Network (WIN)
www.ein.org/
The goal of WIN is to stimulate the dissemination of infertility information
among professionals, researchers, and patients. WIN offers background information
on the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of infertility, information on infertility
resources in countries in Europe and elsewhere around the world, access
to European journals on reproductive health, and recent news on infertility
treatments and technology.
