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Fertility Help Hub Partners Are Offering the Chance to Receive Complimentary IVF Treatment
One in eight couples in the United States reportedly experience fertility issues. Whether it’s the stress of not being able to conceive without medical intervention or the struggle to get access to care, infertility on its own can impact one’s mental health as well as their savings account. Factor in the pandemic, and that stress is compounded.
Following the American Society of Reproductive Medicine’s recommendation in March 2020 to immediately and indefinitely suspend all in-person fertility treatments, many patients were forced to stop treatment. While most clinics have since reopened, some patients are not in the financial position they were before the pandemic to afford the care they need.
In a recent study of 92 women, more than half had had an IVF cycle canceled. Approximately one-third had been in the middle of IUI when treatments were suspended due to the pandemic. 86% of those polled reported that the delay in treatment had a negative impact on their mental health, and 52% reported severe symptoms of depression.
A group called Fertility Help Hub (FHH) aims to respond to these concerns. They recently announced they have partnered with several fertility clinics to provide four people the chance to receive one round of complimentary IVF treatment or donor sperm to give hope back to those whose treatment has been affected.
Fertility Help Hub And Their Current Offer
Launched in 2019, Fertility Help Hub is a lifestyle fertility platform, which reaches hundreds of thousands of people worldwide who are at different stages of their fertility journeys and are looking for community support, virtual events, and expert content as well as resources. It provides expert insight, conception resources, inspiring real-life stories, health and wellbeing information.
“I founded Fertility Help Hub in 2019, following our problematic route to parenthood,” Eloise Edington, FHH’s Founder. “Due to my husband’s genetic condition, Klinefelter Syndrome (affecting approximately 1 in 660 men), he underwent a challenging sperm retrieval operation in the States, which was sadly unsuccessful. In New York, we embarked on IVF with donor sperm…
