Infertility and Assisted Reproductive Technology a Study on Infertile Women in the Rural and Urban Areas of Bangalore Karnataka

Abstract

Infertility can have serious consequences for women wellbeing in a culture which values reproduction of women. When fertility fails, they blame women and sometime each other for the failure of fertility. This researcher is intended to understand the knowledge of infertility, quality of life and awareness on Assisted reproductive technology (ART) available to overcome infertility and their family support and society support towards them in overcoming issues. To study effect of infertility on socio-economic profile, marital life, social situation, quality of life in women and to develop social culture which aids in relieving the stress of infertile women and improve assisted reproductive treatment. The researcher has adopted multi method research namely phenomenology, case study method and feminist research methodology to under study and understand different dimensions of infertile women in the study area. Snowball sampling technique has been used to select the sample from both rural and urban areas of Bangalore city. It is a chain referral sampling considered for the research. The main suggestions are to introduce Low cost IVF (LCIVF) which is accessible to rural areas also, to sensitize the para medical staffs and consultants on the psycho social issues of infertility, to be a focus on primary health care centers (PHC) at rural areas on prevention of infertility helping the rural infertile women on the cost of ART process. Finally to encourage adoption through proper counseling and referrals and keep surrogacy can be a second option. newline