🇦🇷 Fertility treatment in Argentina

The legal framework

Access and coverage (Law 26.862)

Law 26.862 guarantees comprehensive access to medically assisted reproduction, including low- and high-complexity techniques, with or without donated gametes or embryos. Any adult who has given informed consent can access treatment; consent can be revoked until the embryo is implanted. The public health sector, social health insurers and prepaid medical plans must include diagnosis, medicines, support therapies and procedures as mandatory benefits for their members, and the health authority cannot introduce requirements that exclude people because of sexual orientation or marital status. Treatment may only be performed in licensed facilities registered with the national Ministry of Health.^[1]

Consent, parentage and donor information (Civil and Commercial Code)

The Civil and Commercial Code requires prior, informed and free consent, renewed each time gametes or embryos are used, and revocable until conception or embryo implantation. Children born through assisted reproduction are the children of the person who gave birth and of the man or woman who also gave valid, registered consent, regardless of who provided the gametes. People born with donor gametes can obtain the donor’s medical information from the clinic when it is relevant to their health; the donor’s identity can only be revealed for well-founded reasons assessed by a court.^[2]

Egg freezing and embryo freezing

Law 26.862 includes, within mandatory coverage, the storage of gametes or reproductive tissue for people, including those under 18, whose ability to have children may be affected by health problems, medical treatment or surgery. Argentine centers reported 1,953 fertility-preservation cycles to the Latin American Registry for 2021, the second-highest number in the region after Brazil.^[1][3]

For how egg and embryo freezing work and how common they are in the US, see our guides on egg freezing and frozen vs. fresh embryo transfer.

Latin American Registry of Assisted Reproduction (RLA), 2021

Source: [3]. REDLARA data come from accredited centers that report voluntarily; not every clinic in the country is included.

Registry figures describe national activity. They are not a measure of any single clinic’s results, and they are not directly comparable with US CDC clinic data, which use different definitions. See how to read IVF success rates.

Questions to ask a clinic in Argentina

• Does the clinic report its results to the national or regional registry, and can it share its own outcomes by age?
• Which of the rules on this page apply to you as a foreign patient, and what documents will you need?
• If you use donor eggs, sperm or embryos, what information about the donor will you and a future child be able to access?
• How long can frozen eggs or embryos be stored, what does storage cost each year, and can they be shipped to another country?
• How many visits are needed in person, and which steps can be done with a clinic at home?

See also our full list of questions to ask a fertility clinic.

Not covered yet

We only publish facts we can tie to a primary source. Not yet covered on this page: Treatment prices for patients outside the Argentine health system; Surrogacy; Clinic-level success rates.