A wide variety of people, including heterosexual couples, same-sex partners, older persons, individuals who are not in sexual relationships and those with certain medical conditions, such as some HIV sero-discordant couples and cancer survivors, may require infertility management and fertility care services.
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在获得生育保健服务方面的不平等和差距对贫穷、未婚、未受教育、失业和其他边缘化人口产生不利影响。
Inequities and disparities in access to fertility care services adversely affect the poor, unmarried, uneducated, unemployed and other marginalized populations.
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解决不孕不育症问题也可以减轻性别不平等。
Addressing infertility can also mitigate gender inequality.
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尽管女性和男性都可能有不孕不育问题，但与男性有关系的女性，无论她们是否不孕，往往被视为问题方。
Although both women and men can experience infertility, women in a relationship with a man are often perceived to suffer from infertility, regardless of whether they are infertile or not.
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不孕不育症对夫妇的生活产生重大负面社会影响，特别是对妇女。
Infertility has significant negative social impacts on the lives of infertile couples and particularly women, who frequently experience violence, divorce, social stigma, emotional stress, depression, anxiety and low self-esteem.
In some settings, fear of infertility can deter women and men from using contraception if they feel socially pressured to prove their fertility at an early age because of a high social value of childbearing.