作者
Nahar Papreen, Anjali Sharma, Keith Sabin, Lutfa Begum, S Khaled Ahsan, Abdulla H Baqui
发表日期
2000/5/1
期刊
Reproductive health matters
卷号
8
期号
15
页码范围
33-44
出版商
No longer published by Elsevier
简介
This paper explores the perceived causes of infertility, treatment-seeking for infertility and the consequences of childlessness, particularly for women, among a predominantly Muslim population in urban slums of Dhaka in Bangladesh. In-depth interviews were conducted with 60 women and 60 men randomly selected from Urban Surveillance System clusters of the International Centre for Diarrhoea] Disease Research, Bangladesh. Case studies of 20 self-perceived infertile women who had previously participated in a study on the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases and other reproductive tract infections were taken, and three traditional healers were interviewed as key informants. In both groups of respondents, the leading causes of infertility were perceived to be evil spirits and physiological defects in women and psychosexual problems and physiological defects in men. Herbalists and traditional healers …
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