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Restricted access to assisted reproductive technology and fertility preservation: legal and ethical issues

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REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE ONLINE
卷 43, 期 3, 页码 571-576

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2021.06.018

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Assisted reproductive technology; Fertility preservation; Public health system; Reproductive health; Social disparities

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  1. Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq)

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Access to assisted reproductive technology (ART) and fertility preservation in Brazil faces significant challenges, with limited availability in public hospitals, lack of coverage by health insurance, and high costs for private care. Despite economic projections suggesting affordability and potential profitability for the state, the lack of universal access highlights the social disparities in accessing these services.
Access to assisted reproductive technology (ART) and fertility preservation remains restricted in middle and low income countries. We sought to review the status of ART and fertility preservation in Brazil, considering social indicators and legislative issues that may hinder the universal access to these services. Although the Brazilian Constitution expressly provides the right to health, and ordinary law ensures the state is obliged to support family planning, access to services related to ART and fertility preservation is neither easy nor egalitarian in Brazil. Only a handful of public hospitals provide free ART, and their capacity far from meets demand. Health insurance does not cover ART, and the cost of private care is unaffordable to most people. Brazilian law supports, but does not command, the state provision of ART and fertility preservation to guarantee the right to family planning; therefore, the availability of state-funded treatments is still scarce, reinforcing social disparities. Economic projections suggest that including ART in the Brazilian health system is affordable and may actually become profitable to the state in the long term, not to mention the ethical imperative of recognizing infertility as a disease, with no reason to be excluded from a health system that claims to be 'universal'.

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