World Embryologist Day, 25 July, honours embryologists' contributions and progress in infertility and reproductive medicine. A recent SRHM paper highlights the lack of political, human resource and professional support in sub-Saharan Africa, which inhibits the implementation of low-cost initiatives to improve access and affordability to assisted reproductive technologies.
We spoke to two experts for the SRHM Podcast, Professor Andrea Whittaker and Professor Trudie Gerrits about their paper, Access to assisted reproductive technologies in sub-Saharan Africa: fertility professionals' views.
"By now, the impact and the social consequences of infertility in Sub Saharan Africa is quite well known and documented. However, much less is known, and especially published, about what is actually being done to tackle this problem"
Trudie Gerrits
The authors emphasized that there is enormous human resource limitations across Sub Saharan Africa in terms of embryologists and also fertility specialists. A lot of low cost programs depend upon embryologists for interventions to work.
"This (paper) is sort of the beginning of what needs to take place as a much broader dialogue across Sub Saharan Africa about really making assisted reproduction accessible and affordable for the people who need it. Essentially a dialogue to really think about providing reproductive justice for people suffering from infertility in the region".
Andrea Whittaker
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