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, …

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, …