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The Infertility Awareness Association of South Africa (IFAASA), founded in 2013, is a non-profit organisation committed to supporting Southern Africans navigating reproductive health challenges. Through education, research, and advocacy, IFAASA aims to empower individuals affected by infertility while fostering greater public understanding of reproductive health issues.

Before IFAASA’s inception, South Africa lacked a dedicated patient advocacy group for infertility. Despite statistics showing that one in six couples face infertility, there remains a significant lack of awareness among the public, many healthcare professionals, and even those experiencing infertility about the complexities and emotional toll of the journey to parenthood.

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Contact us to find out the locations of support groups across South Africa.

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Email: saskia@ifaasa.co.za

 

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European Fertility Society Fertility Care 2021 Awards

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African Excellence Award Winners 2024 

Best Infertility Patient Advocacy Group

Our Parents are 1 in 6

After we were married, we decided that we would start trying for children early on as neither of us were getting any younger and we wanted to grow with our children. I had never been one for counting days of my cycle and was none the wiser that I had been having very...

Ange and Mikes Story

A few weeks before my husband and I got married I kickstarted contraception (yup, that way round), in preparation for a kid-free couple of years. I was 27, he was 30 and we had known each other for just over a year. The concept of children seemed fun but also...

Sometimes there is no happy ending…

By Chantal Jacobs I am 1 in 6 but I am even rarer than that. I'm here to tell you that despite all your best wishes and hard work - treatment sometimes just doesn't work. We have been TTC for 8 years, I started at 29. We have done 6 or 7 IUI's. 7 ICSI's and 2 PICSI's....

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