Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 1 , Pages 116-123 , July 2009

The challenge of providing infertility services to a low-income immigrant Latino population

  • Robert D. Nachtigall, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Health and Aging, University of California-San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, California
    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, UCSF, San Francisco, California
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Robert D. Nachtigall, M.D., Institute for Health and Aging, University of California-San Francisco, 3333 California Street, Suite 340, San Francisco, CA 94118 (FAX: 415-502-5208).
    • ,
  • Martha Castrillo, B.A.

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Health and Aging, University of California-San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, California
    • ,
  • Nina Shah, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
    • ,
  • Dylan Turner, B.A.

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Health and Aging, University of California-San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, California
    • ,
  • Jennifer Harrington, B.A.

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Health and Aging, University of California-San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, California
    • ,
  • Rebecca Jackson, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, UCSF, San Francisco, California

Received 28 March 2008 ,Revised 12 May 2008 ,Accepted 15 May 2008.

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 R.D.N. has nothing to disclose. M.C. has nothing to disclose. N.S. has nothing to disclose. D.T. has nothing to disclose. J.H. has nothing to disclose. R.J. has nothing to disclose.

 Supported by National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grant RO1 HD42505 (G. Becker, Principal Investigator; R.D. Nachtigall, Co-investigator).

PII: S0015-0282(08)01149-7

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.05.037

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 1 , Pages 116-123 , July 2009

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