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The social and cultural meanings of infertility for men and women in Zambia: legacy, family and divine intervention.
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- Schistosomiasis: a neglected cause of infertility in females and males.Current opinion in infectious diseases · 2025Review
- Access to assisted reproductive technologies in sub-Saharan Africa: fertility professionals' views.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2024Article
- A scoping review of the psychosocial aspects of infertility in African countries.Reproductive health · 2024Article
- Irrational parenthood cognition and infertility stigma among infertile women: A cross-sectional study in Changsha, China.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Experiences of infertility among couples in Morocco.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2024Article
- Breaking the silence around infertility: a scoping review of interventions addressing infertility-related gendered stigmatisation in low- and middle-income countries.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2023Article
- Exploring the cultural perspectives and implications of infertility among couples in the Talensi and Nabdam Districts of the upper east region of Ghana.Contraception and reproductive medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
Despite the high prevalence of infertility within the sub-Saharan sterility belt, infertility in Zambia is understudied, particularly from a social perspective. Furthermore, few studies in sub-Saharan Africa include the infertility experiences of men. This article seeks to fill this gap by qualitatively describing the ways in which infertility in Zambia is socially and culturally loaded for both men and women. Demonstrating fertility is necessary to be considered a full adult, a real man or woman, and to leave a legacy after death. People in Zambia, including medical professionals, currently lack the necessary information and access to (or ability to provide) care to effectively resolve fertility issues. Infertile people manage their experience through a variety of social, emotional, spiritual, and medical strategies. However, no solution is considered adequate unless the intervention results in childbirth. In this way, infertility is about producing babies and the social meaning of that process, rather than the raising of children.
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