You need someone in a grand boubou -barriers and means to access ARTs in West Africa

You need someone in a grand boubou -barriers and means to access ARTs in West Africa

Hörbst, V.

2012/00/00

English

20120000

Many francophone West African countries rank as low resource states, and are dependent on donor nations and remittances from migrants working abroad. Their health system is in a less favourable state and basic health care is not accessible for all its citizens, and in particular, private clinics offer highly specialized services such as assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) for infertility care. Drawing from my research on ARTs particularly in Mali but also including Senegal and Togo, I will specifically outline the contextual barriers for African actors, both patients and professionals, to gain access to ARTs in the public or private health sector and mechanisms they have developed to cope with them.

Monographs:Biomedical Infertility Care in Poor Resource Countries: Barriers, Access and Ethics

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health services accessibility--[pri];infertility--[pri];reproductive health services--[pri]

focus groups;health status;hospitals;interviews;obstetrics and gynecology;private sector;public health;public sector;quality of health care;reproductive technologies;scarcity;socioeconomic factors

West Africa--[pri]

Mali;Senegal;Togo

Facts, Views and Vision in ObGyn2012:46-52

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