Full Description
This book focuses on reproductive health rights and assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa. Each chapter is connected to the other by focusing on different aspects of ART as a means of achieving conception.
Topics such as regulation of ART practices, surrogacy and specific aspects of ART, which are gradually becoming acceptable but largely unregulated in Africa, promises to be of interest to scholars, researchers and fertility practitioners. Research in the book take a rights based approach and ethical analysis of ART practice in sub-Saharan Africa by authors from diverse backgrounds bringing together law and society perspectives.
Readers stand to gain new knowledge on the societal, legal, medical and psychological requirements, effects and challenges of reproductive health rights and ART in the African context. The book is also relevant to UN Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, given that it promotes and advocates for accessto reproductive healthcare for persons who have difficulty or are unable to conceive without medical assistance.
Contents
Part 1: Reproductive Rights.- Chapter 1: Introduction - Reproductive Health Rights and Reproductive Technologies in Africa.- Chapter 2: Awareness of Reproductive Health Rights Among Women of Childbearing Age in Adamawa, Nigeria.- Chapter 3: A Human Rights-Based Perspective to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of African Senior Citizens.- Chapter 4: Reproductive Health Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Nigeria: A Legal or Cultural Deficiency?.- Part 2: Abortion.- Chapter 5: The Provision of Safe and Legal Abortion Services in South Africa: Expanding Access Through Telemedicine During the Covid-19 Pandemic.- Chapter 6: Reproductive Health Norms in West Africa: The Covid-19 Experience and a Path for the Future.- Chapter 7: Reproductive Health Rights in Liberia: The Case of (Il)Legal and (Un)Safe Abortion.- Part 3: Assisted Reproductive Technologies.- Chapter 8: Reproductive Health Rights and the Regulation of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) Services in Nigeria.- Chapter 9: New Frontiers for Reproductive Health Rights: Contemporary Developments in the Regulation of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in South Africa.- Chapter 10: Informed Consent and Ethical Considerations in Assisted Reproductive Technology in Nigeria: Options and Challenges.- Chapter 11: Contract for Gestational Services: Examining the Legal Status and Enforceability of Surrogacy Arrangements in Nigeria.- Chapter 12: The Role of Data Collection in Developing Adequate Legal Mechanisms for .- the Practice of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa.
