This study was funded by the Australian government through the Australian Research Council Discovery Project Scheme [DP200101270] ‘Emerging assisted reproduction markets in Southern Africa’. Ethical clearance was granted by Monash University (MUHREC 27166) and The University of the Witwatersrand (M210546) . We thank all participants for their generosity in sharing their time and stories with us.
This interdisciplinary study across anthropology and public health focuses upon the mobilities of patients to Southern Africa for assisted reproduction treatment (ART) and mobility of ova providers, gametes, embryos and medical staff across Africa and to and from Australia.
On Thurs 2 March 2023, Prof. Andrea Whittaker presented a paper to the Reproductive Biomedicine and Technology Group Group at The Centre For Bioethics at the University of Melbourne. Watch the presentation,
" FIFO Medicos and the Organisation of Assisted Reproduction in Sub-Saharan Africa".
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