... labor to gauge its impact on reproduction. An intensification of agronomy with medical studies, Songo was hated. Songo chiefdom was home to Befale, headquarters of an intensive Fonds du Bien Etre Indigene project with infertility clinic. By 1939, Befale territory contained a penal colony for dangerous...

... Global infertility African infertility IVF absences Catastrophic expenditure Low-cost IVF (LCIVF) ...

... gonorrhea infertility childlessness Pierre Ryckmans endocrinology colonial ...

... Ethnography Cosmopolitanism Medical cosmopolitanism Male infertility Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) ...

... Tubal infertility Refugeeism Social suffering British National Health Service (NHS) East Africa ...

... from around the world, who are traveling to Dubai for work, tourism, shopping, and medical care. In a clinic called Conceive located on the border of Dubai, infertile couples from around the world seek IVF services unavailable to them in their home countries. Traveling primarily from South Asia, East...

... In this chapter, Rahnia returns to Conceive, where she finishes her reproductive journey with a happier ending. Such IVF journeys bespeak the aspirations for parenthood and child desires that are driving global reprotravel in a world where 95 percent of adults want children. Today, infertile...

... The global metrics of infertility point to a cruel paradox: Namely, the highest rates of infertility occur in parts of the world with the lowest access to IVF. This is especially true in sub-Saharan Africa, which is a continent relatively devoid of IVF clinics, despite high levels of unmet need...

...-based degenerationism, with a reluctance before venereal and endocrinological theorizing. About the same time, people and groups from Basankusu to Ingende organize a new mobile medicinal charm, Likili, especially devoted to helping men and women with infertility problems. They dance with flywhisks...

... such as Beirut, Tehran, and Dubai. The author recounts her own ethnographic forays into Middle Eastern IVF clinics in several countries, where she met hundreds of traveling infertile couples. However, in Dubai, she encounters an entire world of reproduction in motion, meeting “reprotravelers” from fifty...