Research shows that it’s common for Black women to start fertility treatment after experiencing infertility for multiple years, whereas their white counterparts usually seek care sooner.
“Infertility, diagnostic evaluation and treatment are one of the few areas of medicine that is not universally covered by insurance,” Jackson-Bey explained. “That creates a really large gap in terms of who is able to access care and who is not.”“I had heard about IVF from the beginning, but I was afraid of it,” she said. “First of all, the way that IVF is marketed traditionally is that it’s something that rich people do. It’s something that white people do. ...
National data identifying racial disparities in fertility care only recently became available when Seifer published his 2007 study. Previously, there were only smaller population studies that were “somewhat controversial,” he said. “We didn’t create that. That was a myth assigned to us. And without the context, people don’t think we need the treatment,” she added.Seifer said infertility and fertility treatment is still stigmatized, particularly among the Black community, “so they tend to delay, they may have a hard time finding a doctor, they may be less likely to speak to their friends about it.... There’s so many questions about it that needs to really be pursued.
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