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The Nairobi Summit and Reproductive Justice: Unmet Needs for People with Infertility
Susan Dierickx
Susan Dierickx
Centre of Expertise on Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality (RHEA), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium;
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Michiel De Proost
Michiel De Proost
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Anny Yuanfei Huang
Anny Yuanfei Huang
School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom;
Medical Research Council Unit, The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Fajara, The Gambia;
Research School of Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia;
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Sainey Ceesay
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Safe Haven Foundation, Banjul, The Gambia
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Ed Clarke
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Julie Balen
Julie Balen
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ABSTRACT
The Nairobi Summit, held in November 2019 and convened by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, claims to have represented “all nations and peoples, and all segments” of society during its high-level conference. The overall aim of the summit was to mobilize political will and financial commitments that are urgently needed to “finally and fully” implement the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Program of Action. Despite the recommendation by ICPD to incorporate infertility care in reproductive health services, the new Nairobi Statement largely neglects the topic of infertility. This is particularly troublesome as infertility is a global health problem affecting between 52.6 and 72.4 million couples worldwide, with a high prevalence in low- and middle-income settings. For many people around the world, infertility constitutes an emotional, social, and financial burden, yet appropriate services directed toward preventing and addressing infertility are often inaccessible, unaffordable, or nonexistent. With the impetus of a wider reproductive justice community, we call for the integration of infertility into global reproductive health research and practice, urging policy makers, practitioners, researchers, activists, and funders worldwide to bring focused attention to addressing challenges posed by a lack of safe, effective, and dignified fertility management among those in need.
Author Notes
Authors’ addresses: Susan Dierickx and Michiel De Proost, Centre of Expertise on Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality (RHEA), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, E-mails: susan.dierickx@vub.be and michiel.de.proost@vub.be. Anny Yuanfei Huang, Research School of Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, E-mail: anny.y.huang@gmail.com. Sainey Ceesay, Safe Haven Foundation, Banjul, The Gambia, E-mail: saibabe55@gmail.com. Ed Clarke, Vaccines and Immunity Theme, MRC Unit, The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Fajara, The Gambia, E-mail: ed.clarke@lshtm.ac.uk. Julie Balen, School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, E-mail: j.balen@sheffield.ac.uk.
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Mascarenhas MN , Flaxman SR , Boerma T , Vanderpoel S , Stevens GA , 2012. National, regional, and global trends in infertility prevalence since 1990: a systematic analysis of 277 health surveys. PLoS Med 9: e1001356.
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2.
Ombelet W , 2011. Global access to infertility care in developing countries: a case of human rights, equity and social justice. Facts Views Vis Obgyn 3: 257–266.
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3.
Inhorn MC , Patrizio P , 2015. Infertility around the globe: new thinking on gender, reproductive technologies and global movements in the 21st century. Hum Reprod Update 21: 411–426.
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4.
Gerrits T , Shaw M , 2010. Biomedical infertility care in sub-Saharan Africa: a social science review of current practices, experiences and view points. Facts Views Vis Obgyn 2: 194–207.
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5.
Hough CA , 2010. Loss in childbearing among Gambia’s kanyalengs: using a stratified reproduction framework to expand the scope of sexual and reproductive health. Soc Sci Med 71: 1757–1763.
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6.
Dierickx S , Coene G , Evans M , Balen J , Longman C , 2019. The fertile grounds of reproductive activism in the Gambia: a qualitative study of local key stakeholders’ understandings and heterogeneous actions related to infertility. PLoS One 14: e0226079.
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7.
De Proost M , Coene G , 2019. Emancipation on thin ice: women’s autonomy, reproductive justice, and social egg freezing. Tijdschr Genderstud 22: 357–371.
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8.
Dierickx S , Balen J , Longman C , Rahbari L , Clarke E , Jarju B , Coene G , 2019. ‘We are always desperate and will try anything to conceive’: the convoluted and dynamic process of health seeking among women with infertility in the West Coast Region of the Gambia. PLoS One 14: e0211634.
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9.
Bell AV , 2016. The margins of medicalization: diversity and context through the case of infertility. Soc Sci Med 156: 39–46.
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10.
Smietana M , Thompson C , Twine FW , 2018. Making and breaking families – reading queer reproductions, stratified reproduction and reproductive justice together. Reprod Biomed Soc Online 7: 112–130.
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11.
Ceballo R , Graham ET , Hart J , 2015. Silent and infertile: an intersectional analysis of the experiences of socioeconomically diverse African American women with infertility. Psychol Women Q 39: 1–15.
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12.
UNFPA , 2020. About the Nairobi Summit. Available at: http://www.nairobisummiticpd.org/content/about-nairobi-summit. Accessed February 17, 2020.
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13.
UNFPA , 2020. Nairobi Statement on ICPD25: Accelerating the Promise. Available at: https://www.nairobisummiticpd.org/content/icpd25-commitments. Accessed February 17, 2020.
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14.
Nahar P , 2012. Invisible women in Bangladesh: stakeholders’ views on infertility services. Facts Views Vis Obgyn 4: 149–156.
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15.
Ombelet W , 2014. Is global access to infertility care realistic? The Walking Egg Project. Reprod Biomed Online 28: 267–272.
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16.
Fledderjohann JJ , 2012. “Zero is not good for me”: implications of infertility in Ghana. Hum Reprod 27: 1383–1390.
-
17.
Dierickx S , Rahbari L , Longman C , Jaiteh F , Coene G , 2018. ‘I am always crying on the inside’: a qualitative study on the implications of infertility on women’s lives in urban Gambia. BMC Reprod Heal 15: 1–11.
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18.
Baldwin K , 2019. The biomedicalisation of reproductive ageing: reproductive citizenship and the gendering of fertility risk. Health Risk Soc 21: 268–283.
-
19.
Ibisomi L , Mudege NN , 2014. Childlessness in Nigeria: perceptions and acceptability. Cult Heal Sex 16: 61–75.
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20.
Dhont N , 2011. Clinical, epidemiological and socio-cultural aspects of infertility in resource-poor settings. Evidence from Rwanda. Facts Views Vis Obgyn 3: 77–88.
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21.
Hollos M , Whitehouse B , 2014. Women in limbo: life course consequences of infertility in a Nigerian community. Hum Fertil 17: 188–191.
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22.
Rubin LR , Phillips A , 2012. Infertility and assisted reproductive technologies: matters of reproductive justive. Chisler JC , ed. Reproductice Justica: A Global Concern. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, LLC, 173–199.
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23.
Ross L , Roberts L , Derkas E , Peoples W , Toure PB , eds., 2017. Radical Reproductive Justice. Foundations, Theory, Practice, Critique .New York, NY: Feminist Press.
| Past two years | Past Year | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 1972 | 1226 | 42 |
| Full Text Views | 807 | 155 | 1 |
| PDF Downloads | 318 | 18 | 1 |