Re-release - Assisted Reproduction in Africa: Insights from Fertility Professionals

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Podcast

In this episode, re-released from August 2024 for World IVF Day 2025, Nina Sun, the Associated Editor of the SRHM journal, speaks to Trudie Gerrits and Andrea Whittaker, the authors of a recently published paper: Assisted reproductive technologies in sub-Saharan Africa: fertility professionals' views.

Andrea is a Professor of Anthropology at the School of Social Sciences at Monash University. Trudie is an Associate Professor at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Amsterdam. Trudie and Andrea talk about their study, which involved semi-structured interviews with fertility specialists and embryologists from six sub-Saharan countries, and was funded by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council.

Specifically, they speak to the rationale or gap in knowledge behind this study, the implications of the findings, and ways to increase access to low-cost yet effective assisted reproductive technologies to address infertility in sub-Saharan Africa.

Useful links:

• Read the full paper 'Access to assisted reproductive technologies in sub-Saharan Africa: fertility professionals’ views' at srhmjournal.org.
• See SRHM's call for papers: www.srhm.org/call-for-papers