ArticleFacts, views & vision in ObGyn2017
Global reproductive health - Why do we persist in neglecting the undeniable problem of childlessness in resource-poor countries?
Article in Facts, views & vision in ObGyn, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- FERTILITY CARE IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES: Public sector access to medically assisted reproduction in South Africa: a case study.Reproduction & fertility · 2025Review
- Ghanaian women's experiences of unsuccessful in-vitro fertilisation treatment, unravelling their meanings: a Heideggerian hermeneutic phenomenological study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Article
- 'It's about time': policymakers' and health practitioners' perspectives on implementing fertility care in the Gambian health system.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Declining global fertility rates and the implications for family planning and family building: an IFFS consensus document based on a narrative review of the literature.Human reproduction update · 2024Review
- Policy action points and approaches to promote fertility care in The Gambia: Findings from a mixed-methods study.PloS one · 2024Article
- The challenges of obesity for fertility: A FIGO literature review.International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2023 · on this mapReview
- Embryo donation among Latin-Americans who have attended assisted reproduction techniques: a first empirical approach.JBRA assisted reproduction · 2021Article
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Abstract
The consequences of involuntary childlessness in developing countries create more wide-ranging societal problems compared to Western societies, particularly for women. Negative psychosocial and economical consequences for childless couples are often severe and underestimated by the local and international society. Infertility treatment is often limited to certain procedures and certain costumers. Most common arguments against supporting infertility care in resource-poor countries are the "overpopulation" and the "limited resources" argument, but they totally neglect the reproductive rights and systematic exclusion of millions of women from the right to reproduce. Because ART procedures are very expensive, governments and international aid-organisations are currently not investing in this technique. But the scene has changed recently: inexpensive ovarian stimulation protocols for IVF have proven their value and simplified but high quality low cost IVF techniques are available nowadays. From an ethical point of view it is our belief that the community can no longer justify the systematic exclusion of one tenth of couples from the right to reproduce in resource-poor countries.
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