We have partnered with the Spanish National Infertility Network (Red Infértiles) on the 2026 Annual Report on the State of the Infertility Patient. It is the first study in Spain to measure how people going through infertility experience the process, based on 1,397 questionnaires. Our contribution is The Patient’s Voice: their testimonies in their own words and the video that brings them together.
An infertility patient report built on real experience
Red Infértiles promotes the report through its Observatory of the Infertility Patient. It gathers the experiences of people who have gone through, or are going through, infertility or assisted reproduction, and is based on an online survey carried out from 4 June to 30 September 2026.
What the data show
The results confirm something we see every day: infertility reaches far beyond the clinic. 93.3% of participants felt anxiety or sadness often or always, and 54.6% considered giving up at some point. Among those who used private healthcare, 71.6% did so because the public system offered no real options. 46.9% have invested €15,000 or more, and 52.7% hid the process at work out of fear. In addition, 91.2% perceive that social stigma still exists.
The Patient’s Voice, in their own words
At the Foundation we sponsored The Patient’s Voice, the chapter that analyses participants’ open-ended answers, and the video that accompanies it. We did so because we believe that better research and better care start with listening to the people who receive it.
Their testimonies speak about waiting (“Time is precious, and it is spent waiting”), about losses that go unnoticed and about the financial cost. They also speak about the difference that good care and professionals who listen can make: “Even though I didn’t manage to have children, I didn’t feel like a number. I felt valued and very well cared for.”
The report closes with three priorities we share: improving access, improving information and emotional support, and making treatment compatible with work and personal life.
Our thanks to Red Infértiles for including us and, above all, to the 1,397 people who shared their stories.
The full report (in Spanish) is available at redinfertiles.com.
Methodological note: participation was voluntary and the sample is not probabilistic. The results describe those who responded.