Equitable access to fertility care must be recognised as a human right so that it can be better balanced with other societal needs, say Silke Dyer , David Adamson , Marcia Inhorn, and Fernando Zegers-Hochschild Infertility affects one in six people in their lifetime yet remains a neglected global health problem.1 The World Health Organization (WHO) recognises infertility as a disease and has highlighted the need for prevention and management to be more central in health research and policy, including wider and more equitable access to assisted reproductive technology (box 1). Box 1 ### Infertility and assisted reproductionRETURN TO TEXT Assisted reproduction exemplifies how breakthrough technological advances can rapidly spread around the globe, resulting simultaneously in remarkable progress and very unequal access (fig 1). Though the technology cannot guarantee success, over 10 million babies were born globally through assisted reproduction between the first birth in 1978 and 2018, …

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实现更公平地获得辅助生殖

Silke Dyer、David Adamson、Marcia Inhorn 和 Fernando Zegers-Hochschild 表示，必须将公平获得生育护理视为一项人权，以便更好地平衡其他社会需求。六分之一的人一生中不孕不育的现象仍然存在一个被忽视的全球健康问题。1 世界卫生组织 (WHO) 承认不孕症是一种疾病，并强调需要将预防和管理置于健康研究和政策的中心位置，包括更广泛、更公平地获得辅助生殖技术（方框） 1）。框 1 ### 不孕不育和辅助生殖返回文本辅助生殖例证了突破性技术进步如何在全球范围内迅速传播，从而在取得显着进步的同时带来了非常不平等的获取机会（图 1）。尽管这项技术不能保证成功，但从 1978 年到 2018 年，全球有超过 1000 万婴儿通过辅助生殖出生，……