1. Organisation/country
Patients Association
Date of establishment – 19 October 2009; No employees
Volunteers: 7 active persons (permanent nucleus), ~15
volunteers that act on a case-by-case basis, over 2,500
patients / potential volunteers registered in the electronic
database
Financing: Annual budget in 2008 was 0 (zero); Annual budget
in 2009 was about 300 €;
Annual expenses in 2010
amounted to about 1,780 €;
Annual expenses in 2011
amounted to about 6,000 €.
Fertility Europe Spring Meeting,
13th of April 2012 Bucharest, Romania

2. Campaigns / Best practicies
Determining the
creation of In Vitro
Fertilization and
Embryo-transfer
Program financed
by the Ministry of
Health in Romania
(2011 & 2012)
→ 885 cases
approuved already
(in progress)
Fertility Europe Spring Meeting,
13th of April 2012 Bucharest, Romania

3. Campaigns / Best practicies
“SOS Infertilitatea
support groups”
Program -
psychological and
emotional support for
couples.
Bimonthly meetings in
Bucharest, Oradea
and Iasi of patients
affected by infertility,
coordinated by a
psychologist.

4. Campaigns / Best practicies
”SOS Infertilitatea
Library” Program –
books on infertility,
assisted reproduction
and adoption, in
Romanian, French or
English, that can be
borrowed by persons
concerned.

5. Campaigns / Best practicies
”Online medical
guidance” Program
- 23 specialists in
human assisted
reproduction and
connected medical
areas
supply medical
counseling
voluntarily on the
association’s forum

6. Campaigns / Best practicies
”We want to
adopt children”
Advocacy
Campaign
to draw public
attention on the
severity of
blockage in the
field of adoptions
in Romania

7. Campaigns / Best practicies
”National
Awareness Week -
Social and Medical
Phenomenon of
Infertility in
Romania”
Sensibilisation
campaign «Infertility
exists. And it hurts!»