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About niaw
National Infertility Awareness Week®, (NIAW) is a movement, founded in 1989 by RESOLVE. All too often myths and misinformation appear in media stories or influence lawmakers and companies to enforce policies that create barriers for people who need help building their family. And still people feel isolated when they struggle to build a family, so we want to empower them to share their story and find a community that cares.
Our mission is to empower you and change the conversation around infertility.
When the community comes together and talks about National Infertility Awareness Week®, we will:
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Enhance public understanding that infertility needs and deserves attention.
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Ensure that people trying to build a family know the guidelines for
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Educate lawmakers about how infertility impacts people in their state.
National Infertility Awareness Week:
April 19–25, 2026
Infertility is a challenge no one should face alone. This year, during National Infertility Awareness Week (NIAW), we invite you to join us for a week of advocacy, community, and empowerment under our 2026 theme.​
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Infertility does not look one way, and neither does the community it affects.
During National Infertility Awareness Week® 2026, we come together for a week of advocacy, community, and empowerment centered on this year’s theme, More Than.
#MoreThan recognizes that infertility does not look one way, and neither does the community it affects. National Infertility Awareness Week® 2026 amplifies the diversity of paths, identities, cultures, and families navigating infertility, reminding the world that there is no single story.
We are more than one in six. More than a stereotype. More than a narrow narrative of who experiences infertility or how family building should look.
#MoreThan creates space for every voice, across race, gender identity, sexual orientation, relationship status, ability, and socioeconomic background, to be seen and heard.
This NIAW, RESOLVE urges advocates, providers, policymakers, and the media to lift up stories that show the barriers we face, the information needed to make decisions about how to build our families, and reduce the shame and stigma from society. When we do this together, we build understanding, solidarity, and collective advocacy, and when we show the full picture, change becomes possible. We become More Than.
Why orange for awareness?
The color orange promotes a sense of wellness, emotional energy to be shared: compassion, passion, and warmth.
Helps to recover from disappointments, a wounded heart, or a blow to one’s pride. Studies show that orange can create a heightened sense of activity, increased socialization, boost in aspiration, contentment, assurance, confidence and understanding.
RESOLVE uses orange to raise awareness, increase activity around an important movement, and remind our community every day that RESOLVE is there for them during the disappointments while educating and promoting physical and emotional wellness.
In 2010, National Infertility Awareness Week® became a federally recognized health observance by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Future National Infertility Awareness Week® dates:
April 19-25, 2026 | April 18-24, 2027 | April 23-29, 2028 | April 22-28, 2029