1 in 6 people experience infertility worldwide, according to WHO report
The WHO recommends that countries offer universal health coverage of fertility treatments in light of a new report showing that 1 in 6 people struggle to conceive.
One in six people across the globe face infertility at some point in their lifetime, according to the first new estimates from the World Health Organization in a decade.
The prevalence is “staggering,” Pascale Allotey, director of sexual and reproductive health and research at WHO, said at a press conference Monday. The report estimates that 17.8% of adults in high-income countries and 16.5% in low- and middle-income countries experience infertility.
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