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Ferring Pharmaceuticals and Posterity Health, a male fertility center of excellence, have partnered to launch a male fertility program.

The two organizations announced the program’s debut on Thursday morning, timed to coincide with National Men’s Health Month.

The program is available through Ferring’s Fertility Out Loud platform and is designed to support both male and female partners through their fertility journey.

Infertility is nothing new as far as medical issues go and is actually fairly common – it’s estimated that one-in-six couples have trouble getting pregnant.

However, as Pam Pure, co-founder and CEO of Posterity Health, is quick to point out, the typical assumption is that the woman is infertile, while about 50% of the time, the man is a factor in not being able to conceive.

She added that about 10% of male partners with an abnormal semen analysis or infertility issue have an underlying health condition identified through testing. Around 40% of males seen for infertility have a significant hormonal imbalance.

Yet on average, a male partner waits 22 months after a couple starts trying to conceive to get their first semen analysis test, which can lead to interpersonal challenges borne out of frustration, confusion, shame and resentment.  

That’s why this partnership features a confidential, online health assessment that provides insights into a partner’s reproductive health. It also enables male partners to order initial semen analysis kits that can be shipped to their home and get telehealth consultations on the results.

Pure told MM+M that the partnership is launching awareness campaigns on social media throughout the month to communicate to both male and female partners about the importance of including males in the fertility evaluation process.

“Our work with Ferring will be communicating to the male partner and communicating to the female partner about a male’s ability to do a health assessment that ties back to their fertility,” she said. “There are a lot of questions [in the online assessment] about their fertility, but it also includes questions about their overall health status.”

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Male fertility issues are often treatable through lifestyle changes, medications, or surgical procedures to improve sperm quality. Pure said including males in the fertility evaluation process early on can help identify these issues faster and provide the best path to conception.  

Pure said the goal of the partnership is to make evaluating male fertility a normal part of the process for couples trying to have a baby.

The hard work to make this happen is achieved through education and awareness campaigns, as Pure noted there is still a clear need to reduce the stigma around male infertility. 

Even just being open with the clinical terminology can go a long way to normalizing these conversations and lead to improved health outcomes.

“For some people, just the word ‘sperm’ is a trigger,” she said. “We have so much work to do to help people understand that these are medical conditions.”

To read an October 2024 article on Mira’s hormonal health campaign, which aims to fill the sex ed gap, click here.