IVF and clinical research still on hold

As a result, nine infertile couples brought a case against the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that, in November 2012, was decided by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The ruling established that an absolute ban of IVF violates the right to privacy, the right to family and the right to personal integrity. The ruling also acknowledged that infertility was a disease recognised by the World Health Organization and that infertile people should be granted access to fertility treatment. Among the reparations ordered by the court were the reinstitution of access to IVF and the incorporation of access to this technique in the country’s social security administration.