Declining fertility rates and rapidly ageing populations are reshaping societies worldwide, raising concerns about future demographic shifts, healthcare demands and the growing need for elderly care facilities over childcare infrastructure. […]
Emotional and psychosocial support plays a crucial role in helping individuals and couples navigate infertility treatment, reducing barriers caused by stigma, misconceptions and social taboos surrounding IVF and assisted reproduction. […]
Since the world’s first IVF baby was born almost 50 years ago, assisted reproductive technologies have advanced spectacularly to help millions of infertile couples to achieve their dreams of parenthood. […]
Cross border reproductive care is a growing global phenomenon allowing people living with infertility to travel to other countries for donor eggs, sperm, surrogacy or IVF treatment. […]
The emotional burden of infertility actively undermines the capacity of many women to make sustained lifestyle changes, including weight loss and physical activity, that can improve their chances of becoming pregnant. […]
Assisted reproductive treatments, such as IVF, will not solve the stigma of infertility when families continue to treat the condition as a moral failure […]
Forty-five years has been identified as the critical age threshold at which elevated sperm DNA fragmentation significantly reduces fertility potential in men. […]
A major new study has shown that South and East Asia dominate patterns of global warming related decline in male fertility with the strongest and most consistent evidence coming from India, Pakistan and the southern parts of China. […]
The Asia Pacific region is bearing the brunt of a dramatic decline in birth rates that will have severe socio-economic impacts in shrinking and ageing societies. […]
A more active role for men in fatherhood and domestic chores could be the key lever of population rebound to arrest collapsing fertility rates around the world. […]
Journeying the Silk Road of Reproductive Care is the theme of the 2026 Congress of the Asia Pacific Initiative on Reproduction (ASPIRE) to be held at the China National Convention Centre in Beijing from 7 to 10 May. […]
World leaders in assisted reproductive technology are finalising global consensus guidelines on minimal standards in surrogacy to address mounting concerns about severe human rights violations. […]
Patient information overload dominated by misleading social media and marketing is causing patients experiencing infertility to have unrealistic expectations about treatment success often resulting in psychological distress. […]
The Silk Road was an ancient network of trade routes linking the great civilizations of China, Europe and the Middle East. Apart from being a conduit for the exchange of goods, the Silk Road facilitated the sharing of ideas between diverse cultures that influenced the progress and enrichment of societies. […]
SINGAPORE: The Asia Pacific Initiative on Reproduction (ASPIRE) – the peak body harnessing expertise in assisted conception throughout the region – will embark on a major public education and awareness program on fertility health. […]
SINGAPORE: Policy makers around the world are not ready for a new demographic order of global depopulation and how it will recast societies, economies and power politics. […]
SINGAPORE: Artificial intelligence, or AI, is transforming our lives in dynamic and challenging ways, including the ability to create life. […]
SINGAPORE: A simple, but revolutionary test has been developed to help unravel the mystery of infertility among men who display normal semen parameters. […]
Presenting fatherhood as cool, admirable and masculine is likely to headline a new fertility rebound initiative across the Asia Pacific region. […]
SINGAPORE: Latest population studies have cast new light on genetic influences on women’s reproductive lifespans and possible markers for the onset of chronic diseases. […]
