Infertility Friends Support Group
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.
Goal
- 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 !
