User:P.Concepcion, UCSF PharmD Candidate/sandbox

Introduction for Fertility Tourism


 * People are usually defined as having fertility issues when they are unable to have a clinical pregnancy after 12 months of attempts with intercourse. [30117155]


 * Infertility, or the inability to get pregnant, affects about 8-12% of couples looking to conceive or 186 million people globally. In some places rates of infertility surpass the global average and can go up to 30% depending on the country. Areas with lack of resources, such as assisted reproductive techniques (ARTs), tend to correlate with the highest rates of infertility. [cite 10.1093/humupd/dmv016] Other impacts on the need for fertility treatments from other countries include infertility, single, those that identify as a part of the LGBTQIA+ community and patients of older age. [29808382]
 * With these rising conditions, people end up having to travel to other countries in order to get the fertility treatments not accessible to them in their home countries. 30117155
 * after the main procedures
 * These methods are types of assisted reproductive techniques. [28069012]

In addition the sentence about people going to other countries, add in policy and legal limits