This paper examines how socio-economic contexts shape local meanings of infertility, how the prevalence of infertility affects these meanings, and how the above affect community responses, life experiences and infertility treatment-seeking behaviors in two African communities. The paper is based on interdisciplinary research conducted among the Ijo and the Yakurr people of southern Nigeria that...

Treating the infertile client with competence and compassion is within the scope of practice for advanced practice clinicians. However, due to both a lack of emphasis on infertility treatment in many advanced practice education programs and confusion regarding diagnosis and treatment by many practitioners, infertility is often undertreated by these providers. A basic infertility evaluation, pat...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the diagnostic and the predictive value of Arizona Sexual Experience Scale among primary infertile couples regarding sexual dysfunction. METHODS The cross-sectional and prospective pre, post study comprising primary infertile patients was carried out at Bulent Ecevit University Hospital, Zonguldak, Turkey. Fifty consecutive primary infertile couples not treated previousl...

Introduction nfertility is defined as the inability of a couple to achieve conception after one year of regular unprotected coitus'. Sterility implies an intrinsic inability to achieve pregnancy, whereas infertility implies a disease in the ability to conceive and is synonymous with subfertility. Approximately 90% of couples with unprotected intercourse will conceive within 1 year and sterility...

Assisted reproductive technology with intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) is becoming an international panacea for couples struggling with infertility. The increasing popularity of these techniques and the data generated has given us a better understanding of the efficacy, consequences and costs of these procedures. There still remain many unanswered questions and controversies surrounding ...

A retrospective analysis of the case records of patients attending the University Hospital, Tabriz, showed that over a period of 16 months, 91 patients consulted for treatment of infertility. Genital tuberculosis was diagnosed at laparotomy and confirmed histopathologically in 21(23.08%) of these patients. Genital tuberculosis is rare in Western Europe and U.S.A. but is still an important facto...

Using data from Wave 1 (2004-2006) of the National Survey of Fertility Barriers (NSFB), a national probability sample of women ages 25-45, we examine online information-seeking among ever-infertile women. Of the 1352 women who met criteria for infertility, 459 (34%) neither talked to a doctor nor went online for information, 9% went online only for information, 32% talked to a doctor but did no...

The use of biochemical markers for identification of biological properties of semen will help to develop new criteria that are accurate and objective in predicting and improving male fertility. Understanding and controlling the mechanisms involved in fertility is a key challenge, which is of fundamental importance in successful animal reproductive performance. Moreover, unraveling the unique mo...

The concentrations of the enviromental pollutant 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin were measured in the blood of 44 infertile women with endometriosis (study group), and in 35 age-matched women with tubal infertility (control group). Eight women with endometriosis (18%) were dioxin positive as compared to one woman (3%) in the controls (P = 0.04). Although the concentrations of dioxin did not...

Distressing character of infertility has led to the development of several psychosocial interventions. We describe two women who suffered from infertility with unknown cause for a long-time period. They participated in weekly, one and half hour group psychotherapy for 10 sessions regularly and became pregnant after these sessions. Group psychotherapy can be used for infertile women who suffer f...