European Fertility Week 2024: The Gamete Story

Shedding Light on Gamete Donation and Advocating for Comprehensive Regulations and Inclusive Fertility Care. 4 November 2024 marked the beginning of European Fertility Week (EFW) 2024, an annual campaign championed by Fertility Europe, dedicated this year to the theme of gamete donation in fertility treatment. […]

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European Fertility Week 2024

The Gamete Story – Shedding Light on Gamete Donation and Advocating for Comprehensive Regulations and Inclusive Fertility Care The 4th of November, 2024, marked the beginning of European Fertility Week (EFW) 2024, an annual campaign dedicated this year to the theme of gamete donation in […]

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Our Annual Theme

Why Annual Theme? For the first time in 2023, we embarked on an exciting new journey by planning our annual activities and projects around a single, preselected topic. This is the essence of our annual theme initiative. Our goal is to explore this subject in […]

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Speakers presenting Fertility Policies Atlas in the Austrian Parliament

New Atlas presentation in the Austrian Parliament

The second edition of the European Atlas of Fertility Treatment Policies, developed by Fertility Europe and the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (EPF), was presented in the Austrian Parliament this week. Policymakers are called to action.

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Minds Matter. Empowering Infertility Patients with Psychological Support

Prolonged yet unsuccessful attempts to conceive or even undergoing long-awaited and much-desired fertility treatment are closely associated with emotional distress, anxiety or depression. Infertility affects more than 25 million EU citizens alone. Every sixth person of reproductive age experiences the condition. We all know someone who struggles with it but we may not know the real weight of infertility burden. It is therefore crucial to see infertility as a comorbidity to mental health issues and acknowledge the need for psychological support services across Europe for all individuals facing infertility and struggling with emotional burdens and distress. Thanks to our honourable hosts and amazing speakers we managed to achieve exactly that.

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