Fertility Healthcare for the South Asian Community
Channel: Fertility Within Reach
Date: 2023-04-10

In anticipation of the 2023 release of the Fertility Healthcare for the South Asian Population brochure, our organization hosted a webinar with two experts, Dr. Meera Shah from Nova IVF in the San Francisco Bay Area and Dr. Tarun Jain from Northwestern University’s Feinburg School of Medicine. During the webinar, our experts discussed and provided their professional and personal insight on fertility health care for the South Asian population, focusing on areas such as cultural impact on care and common factors contributing to infertility within the community.

*Important Note*

We want to acknowledge that while the webinar has helpful information for anyone struggling with infertility and/or anyone who needs fertility care, the information presented is focused on infertility experiences of cisgender heterosexual couples. To help in filling this gap, we have provided fertility healthcare resources for LGBTQ+ individuals in our Fertility Healthcare for the South Asian Population blog post on our website (www.fertilitywithinreach.org)

“In my over 20 years of practice, I have run into very few South Asian LGBTQ+ patients seeking care (though I have a lot of South Asian patients in general). While fertility healthcare for LGBTQ+ South Asians is incredibly important, it is also grossly understudied. The LGBTQ+ community is culturally hard to accept within the South Asian community and it may be therefore harder for such individuals to present for fertility care.”
Dr. Jain

We join Dr. Jain and Dr. Shah in emphasizing the need for further research on this topic, and hope that the webinar and blog post provide helpful information and resources to anyone seeking fertility care.

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