Infertility is a condition loaded with meaning spanning across biomedical, psychological, social, economic, cultural and religious spheres. Given its disruptive power over women’s lives, it provides a unique lens through which issues of kinship, gender, sexuality, cosmology and religion can be examined. The paper presents the results of an ethnographic study of infertility in Central Nigeria. Explanatory models of infertility were variegated, encompassing biomedical, folk and religious elements. Like other ethnographic studies of help seeking for infertility in Nigeria, among this group resort was made to biomedical treatments, traditional healers and religious healing with no one system being hegemonic. The findings of this study accord wi...
This paper discusses the main qualitative results of an investigation into the meanings and conseque...
Background: This study examined the meaning of infertility from layman's perspective, and experience...
Infertility, though a global reproductive problem, is uniquely constructed within different socio-cu...
Infertility is a condition loaded with meaning spanning across biomedical, psychological, social, ec...
Infertility is a condition loaded with meaning spanning across biomedical, psychological, social, ec...
There has been very little documentation of the social meaning given to infertility in many developi...
This paper advances understanding of the consequences of female infertility in sub-Saharan Africa on...
This paper examines how socio-economic contexts shape local meanings of infertility, how the prevale...
This article is premised on the notion that infertility is a subjective construct that individuals e...
Background: Infertility has been described as one of the most important reproductive health concerns...
ABSTRACT Infertility is a global reproductive health issue. Like many other health challenges, Afri...
A paradox in the demographic and epidemiological transitions in sub-Saharan Africa is that as popula...
Infertility is a health as well as a social problem judging from the perspective of the individual c...
This study explored the impact of infertility on infertile men and women in Ibadan, Nigeria. The qua...
The Yoruba of southwest Nigeria believe that infertility can be due to spittle problems, for which o...
This paper discusses the main qualitative results of an investigation into the meanings and conseque...
Background: This study examined the meaning of infertility from layman's perspective, and experience...
Infertility, though a global reproductive problem, is uniquely constructed within different socio-cu...
Infertility is a condition loaded with meaning spanning across biomedical, psychological, social, ec...
Infertility is a condition loaded with meaning spanning across biomedical, psychological, social, ec...
There has been very little documentation of the social meaning given to infertility in many developi...
This paper advances understanding of the consequences of female infertility in sub-Saharan Africa on...
This paper examines how socio-economic contexts shape local meanings of infertility, how the prevale...
This article is premised on the notion that infertility is a subjective construct that individuals e...
Background: Infertility has been described as one of the most important reproductive health concerns...
ABSTRACT Infertility is a global reproductive health issue. Like many other health challenges, Afri...
A paradox in the demographic and epidemiological transitions in sub-Saharan Africa is that as popula...
Infertility is a health as well as a social problem judging from the perspective of the individual c...
This study explored the impact of infertility on infertile men and women in Ibadan, Nigeria. The qua...
The Yoruba of southwest Nigeria believe that infertility can be due to spittle problems, for which o...
This paper discusses the main qualitative results of an investigation into the meanings and conseque...
Background: This study examined the meaning of infertility from layman's perspective, and experience...
Infertility, though a global reproductive problem, is uniquely constructed within different socio-cu...