Self
Help is the Best Help
Infertility Friends is India's first support
group for infertility. We are a registered charitable
trust, run by infertile couples, which aims at providing
infertile couples a forum where they can get together
to discuss their experiences with each other, and derive
strength from their collective experience. Infertility
Friends aims at building up a network of couples who can
support each other - after all, self help is the best
help ! 
Infertility Friends Meeting on Infertility and Stress,
held on 28 June 2003
If you live in Bombay, please do drop in at our next
meeting everyone is welcome and the meetings are free.
We meet on the last Saturday of each month at HELP,
Om Chambers, Kemps Corner, Bombay 400 036 at 4 pm, for
about 2 hours. The meetings are informal - and you are
welcome to take part in the discussion, or to just sit
back and observe.
GOALS
- The primary objective of Infertility Friends is
to establish and sustain a peer support group of infertile
couples.
- To have a team of distinguished infertility specialists,
marital counsellors, adoption counsellors, psychiatrists
and psychologists on its panel of advisors.
- To actively
lobby for recognition of infertility as a medical
problem by insurance companies to enable members to
benefit from Mediclaim and other medical
insurance facilities.
- To advocate to the government the need to have clear
cut policies to protect infertile patients to ensure
they get the highest quality
of medical care; and to provide guidelines regarding
the legal rights of oocyte, sperm and embryo donors.
- To offer financial support and subsidised treatment
to couples who cannot afford the high costs of such
treatment.
- To scientifically study the problems faced by infertile
couples in India; and to research ways and means of
providing cost-effective treatment to them.
- To publish newsletters, brochures and pamphlets
to disseminate information about the latest advances
in the field of infertility treatment.
- To organise public meetings on topics of interest
to help create awareness about infertility.
For more information, please visit the Infertility
Friends website at
www.infertilityfriends.org
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