Awareness and perception of assisted reproductive technology practice amongst women with infertility in Northern Nigeria英文文献资料.docVIP

Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2011, 1, 144-148 OJOG doi:10.4236/ojog.2011.13027 Published Online September 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ojog/). Awareness and perception of assisted reproductive technology practice amongst women with infertility in Northern Nigeria Adebiyi Gbadebo Adesiyun , Nkeiruka Ameh, Solomon Avidime, Abdulsalam Muazu * Department of Obstetrics Gynaecology, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria, Nigeria. * E-mail: Biyi.adesiyun@ Received 20 April 2011; revised 26 April 2011; accepted 5 August 2011. ABSTRACT 1. INTRODUCTION In sub-Saharan Africa, about one-third of couples are reported to be infertile [1]. Female infertility was re- ported to account for about 55% of infertility cases, male factor for about 30% to 40% of cases and unexplained infertility accounted for the remaining 5 to 15 percent [2, 3,4]. In most African setting, parenthood is culturally mandatory and childlessness is socially unacceptable; this is because children are highly desired addition to the family and the society [5]. The repercussions of inferti- lity go beyond ‘not just having a child of your own’. It is associated with incomprehensible and immeasurable psychological and social consequences which impact more on the female. In Africa, infection is the most com- mon cause of infertility [2,6]. Sexually transmitted in- fections mainly from gonorrhoea and Chlamydia, and pregnancy related infections during or after abortion and childbirth are the main culprit. In Africa, infections re- sulting in tubo-peritoneal factor and oligo-azoospermia are the two leading causes of infertility [2,3,4]. The place of tubal surgery versus IVF (in vitro fertilization) in the treatment of tubal infertility showed that patients are optimally treated with IVF [7]. A study from Nigeria, reported an estimate of 30 to 40 percent of patients with tubal factor infer