Today, Ferring Pharmaceuticals released a white paper report titled "Real Voices, New Insights: Eureka Moments for Fertility in Asia" integrating findings from a multi-country survey ("EUREKA") across seven countries in Asia involving over 1,465 respondents who were considering, receiving, or have completed fertility treatments.1,2 Supported by publications and experts' opinion, the insights reported can help guide couples, the public and governments to better understand the infertility journey
A year after expanding the financial subsidy for assisted fertility services and limiting the maximum number of embryos implanted, the success rate of single-embryo transfer (SET) and double embryo transfer (DET) procedures for in vitro fertilization (IVF) has increased from 72.7 percent to 93.9 percent, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said.
A physician described the subsidy expansion program and related policy as a “silent revolution,” as it has not only changed medical behavior, but enabled assisted fertility services using precision medicine to rapidly expand and develop.
The policy stipulates that women aged 35 or under can only undergo SET, while women older
About one in every seven married couples face fertility problems, and those who sought medical treatment took an average of 6.1 years to conceive, two medical groups said yesterday, as they released the results of a survey.
Studies in other countries suggest that about one-quarter of women aged 35 to 39 years and one-third of women aged 40 to 44 have fertility problems, Fertility Society, ROC chairperson Chang Fan (張帆) said.
The prevalence of infertility in Taiwan is about 10 to 15 percent, which means that about one in every seven married couples is infertile, he said.
The survey found that the married
Seventy percent more in vitro fertilizations were performed in the second half of last year compared with the same period in 2019, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said on Wednesday, attributing the trend to easier subsidy applications.
The number of married couples with wives aged 40 to 44 seeking the procedure increased 84.1 percent, the largest growth among all age groups, the ministry said
After the subsidy applications were simplified in July last year, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) had as of Monday approved 27,000 applications, it said.
Among them, 14,127 applicant couples had finished the procedure, with subsidies totaling NT$1.07 billion