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Nature 442, 975-977 (31 August 2006) | doi:10.1038/442975a; Published online 30 August 2006
IVF in Africa: Fertility on a shoestring
Helen Pilcher1
- Helen Pilcher is a science writer based in Nottinghamshire, UK.
Abstract
IVF isn't something most Westerners associate with Africa. But low-cost methods are urgently needed to treat the misery of infertility rampant on the continent, says Helen Pilcher.
Several years ago, Betty Chishava was thrown out of her family home in Harare, Zimbabwe, because she failed to fall pregnant and didn't want to sleep with her husband's brother. Desperate for an heir and a cure for the stigma of infertility, her husband Herbert took a new wife.
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