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• The embryologist's choice will be better calibrated with AI assistance, which will improve outcome rates: Abhishek Aggarwal, C.K Birla Group

  About 2.8 to 3 crore couples in India today are suffering from infertility, and only about 1% of these people come forward for treatment every year. So, while the burden is very high, not many people come forward; they suffer privately, and they look at non-scientific ways of treatment. Sometimes even families cling to hope to take their family forward and do not get the right treatment at the right time.

  

• Despite advancements in fertility treatments, there are still some unmet needs

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• 7 private medical colleges in Maharashtra start free therapy for HIV patients

  The development follows the Union health ministry's gazette notification issued on June 27, 2019, mandating private medical institutes to start anti-retroviral therapy (ART) centres within five years of starting the first batch of medical graduates.

  

• ART, Surrogacy Bill strive to provide better medical care: Mandaviya

  The Union Minister said that the health initiatives introduced by the government for facilitating quality motherhood have paid dividends and resulted in lowering the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) as well.

  

• ART & surrogacy registration begins under compliance rules

  It is mandatory for all the applying organizations to be registered under Nursing Home Act and PCPNDT Act. Apart from the organizations applied on the ART & Surrogacy portal, the organizations doing surrogacy work after December 15, 2022, without registration, will be closed immediately and punishments or punitive action will be taken against them, said Dr Prashant Srivastava, joint director of ART and Surrogacy-cum-PCPNDT (PC-PNDT Act).

  

• Destigmatise Infertility

  Infertility has a huge social stigma and most couples struggle to come to terms with it. Friends and family may not always be able to connect to the challenges that women with infertility faces, since this remains an unseen illness, and the condition can negatively influence personal relationships and produce conflict, both interpersonal and intrapersonal.

  

• Nova IVF launches national training academy for embryologists

  The academy is equipped to graduate 25 students and has already onboarded a current batch of 15 trainee embryologists. Students with a minimum qualification of MSc in embryology are selected as trainees and will be given intense hands-on training for a period of six months.

  

• Adequate stock of antiretroviral drugs for 95% 'People Living with HIV' in India: Sources

  "There is no reported stock out for any ARV drugs at the state level and the fresh supply orders for procurement of the next lot of several drugs are already placed. Individual ART centres may have this issue at times, but the medicines are immediately relocated from nearby centres," it said.

  

• Union Health Ministry notifies regulations for surrogacy clinics

  According to the Rule, the number of attempts of any surrogacy procedure on the surrogate mother shall not be more than three times and the consent of a surrogate mother shall be submitted in Form 2, notified in the rule. The gynaecologist shall transfer one embryo in the uterus of a surrogate mother during a treatment cycle, provided that only in special circumstances up to three embryos may be transferred.

  

• Opportunities in the Infertility Treatment market

  Growing infertility rates are anticipated to boost the demand for fertility services. During the forecast period (2022-2028), the Indian infertility diagnostic and treatment market is expected to develop at a substantial CAGR of 12.5%. (2022-2028). India has a big population of young adults, and the population has been reported to have a larger desire to start a family. According to a study, between 22 to 33 million couples in their reproductive years are experiencing infertility.

  

• Rules for ART clinics and banks notified by Union Health Ministry

  ART banks shall be responsible for screening, collection and registration of the semen donor and cryopreservation of sperms; perform screening and registration of oocyte donor; operate as semen banks or oocyte banks or both; and maintain the records or data of all the donors and shall regularly update the National Registry as provided in sections of the Act.