Percentage of infertile or subfertile couples and individuals receiving assisted fertility treatments.

Definition:

  1. Ratio of (i) numerator: total number of infertile or subfertile couples who wish to have children and are receiving assisted fertilization treatments, and (ii) denominator: total number of infertile or subfertile couples who wish to have children.
  2. Ratio of (i) numerator: total number of infertile or subfertile individuals who wish to have children and are receiving assisted fertilization treatments, and (ii) denominator: total number of infertile or subfertile individuals who wish to have children.

The two indicators are expressed per 100 infertile or subfertile couples who wish to have children or 100 infertile or subfertile individuals who wish to have children, respectively.

 

Notes:

This indicator should take account of the legal regulations in force in the country regarding assisted fertilization and the existence of centres that perform these procedures.

On related concepts, see http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/infertility/art_terminology_es.pdf?ua=1.

Type
Quantitative
Priority Measures

D.43 - Comprehensive health care in the reproductive process for all women

43
Ensure that all women have effective access to comprehensive health care during the reproductive process and specifically to skilled, institutional, compassionate obstetric care and to the best possible maternal health services during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium, as well as to services that include the termination of pregnancy in those cases where the law provides for such services, and guarantee universal access to assisted fertility treatments.

H.85 - Indigenous peoples rights

85
Respect and implement the provisions of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, as well as Convention No. 169 of the International Labour Organization on indigenous and tribal peoples —and call on those countries that have not already done so to sign it and ratify it— adapting legal frameworks and formulating the policies necessary for their implementation, with the full participation of these peoples, including indigenous peoples that live in cities.

H.87 - Traditional medicine and indigenous health practices.

87
Guarantee indigenous peoples’ right to health, including sexual rights and reproductive rights, and their right to their own traditional medicines and health practices, especially as regards reducing maternal and child mortality considering their socio-territorial and cultural specificities as well as the structural factors that hinder the exercise of this right.

I.95 - Right to health in Afro-descendant people

95
Ensure that Afro-descendent persons, in particular Afro-descendent girls, adolescents and women, can exercise the right to health, especially the right to sexual health and reproductive health, taking into account the specific socioterritorial and cultural features and the structural factors, such as racism, that hinder the exercise of their rights.
Topic
D. Sexual and reproductive health