Why would a fertility clinic talk about Black History Month? For Fertility Partnership, the question is “why wouldn’t we?”

From the beginning, we’ve been focused on increasing access to infertility care for everyone regardless of ethnicity, gender or socioeconomic status. We know that African-Americans are 1.5 times more likely to struggle with infertility, and we also know that they are less likely to reach out for medical care to help with infertility.

We’ve written before about the reasons for this disparity, and some of the suspected reasons directly relate to the historical experiences people of color have had with the health care system. Whatever the reason, the health care industry – and fertility care providers in particular – need to be doing everything possible to overcome the problems of the past and reach out to African-Americans in a quest for better health care for all. Fertility Partnership is focused on leading that charge and doing all we can to help raise awareness and spur action, care and healing.