Infertility in South Africa: women's reproductive health knowledge and treatment-seeking behaviour for involuntary childlessness.
Open Access
- 1 June 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Human Reproduction
- Vol. 17 (6), 1657-1662
- https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/17.6.1657
Abstract
Infertility is a major reproductive health problem in Africa. This paper presents the findings of two studies which focus on the knowledge that infertile women have about fertility and the causes of infertility, their treatment-seeking behaviour and their expectations of an infertility clinic.Keywords
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