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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Andrew Gregory Health editor

Ministers to scrap IVF laws denying access to people with HIV

Health minister Maria Caulfield said she hoped the changes would support as many as people to conceive.
Health minister Maria Caulfield said she hoped the changes would support as many as people to conceive. Photograph: S Meddle/ITV/REX/Shutterstock

Ministers are to scrap “outdated” IVF laws that deny access to people with HIV and force lesbians to pay extra for tests. Campaigners said the move would transform lives across the UK.

Hundreds of couples hoping to become parents but going through the distress of fertility issues will have their chances improved, the government announced on Wednesday, as it outlined two law changes to IVF provision in the UK.

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