Efficacy

1. "Any doctors who do not do IVF try to make (infertile) patients feel very hopeless."

2. The poor quality of care diminishes success rates and Egyptian IVF providers themselves acknowledge this.

3. Given the religious implications of these kinds of treatments in Egypt, women who repeatedly do these procedures routinely couch their acceptance of failure in religious terms explaining how God ultimately decides if and when a trial is going to work or not.

4. This process takes a on these people's pockets, psyches, and bodies in so many ways.

5. "It's just like playing roulette, which is the most risky and least controllable form of gambling."

6. Some trials do succeed but most unfortunately do not. For most repeaters, who try and fail and do this all over again the price of inefficacy is very high.