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The European research project “Be Better Informed about Fertility” (B2-InF) maps what young people understand about infertility and medically assisted reproduction (MAR) and the information they want or need. One part of this project were interviews with young people in eight European countries, which were analysed on legal, sociocultural and gende...
Research on knowledge and perception about (in)fertility and Medically Assisted Reproduction (MAR) techniques among young people in Kosovo is lacking. Part of the European Project’s B²-InF’s team conducted a qualitative study in Kosovo with young adults (18–30) in 2021 assessing perceptions and views related to MAR and information provided by the M...
Introduction
Maternal‐neonatal healthcare services were severely disrupted during the COVID‐19 pandemic in even high‐income countries within the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region. The objective of this study was to compare trends in the quality of maternal and neonatal care (QMNC) in Sweden and Norway to 12 other countries from the WH...
Background
Fertility centre websites are a key sources of information on medically assisted reproduction (MAR) for both infertile people and the general public. As part of a global fertility market, they are also a window to attract potential future patients. They give formal and practical information but in the way the information is displayed, th...
Cadre de la recherche : Au moment de la première vague de COVID-19, les pratiques dans les maternités françaises sont hétérogènes et les restrictions concernent essentiellement la présence des accompagnants et l’imposition du port du masque.
Objectifs : Nous avons analysé les effets de la pandémie sur l’organisation des soins dans la Maison de nai...
The European research project “Be Better Informed about Fertility” (B2-InF) maps what young people understand about infertility and medically assisted reproduction (MAR) and the information they want or need. One part of this project were interviews with young people in eight European countries, which were analysed on legal, sociocultural and gende...
Background
Health workers’ (HWs’) perspectives on the quality of maternal and newborn care (QMNC) are not routinely collected. In this cross-sectional study, we aimed to document HWs' perspectives on QMNC around childbirth in 12 World Health Organization (WHO) European countries.
Methods
HWs involved in maternal/neonatal care for at least one year...
Cet article explore divers aspects des usages des outils numériques dans le contexte de la procréation médicalement assistée (PMA) transfrontière, sur la base d’entretiens réalisés auprès de personnes ayant recours à une PMA « hors cadre ». Il met en évidence la place des pratiques numériques lors de la phase d’élaboration du projet parental puis d...
La procréation médicalement assistée (PMA) entretient des relations complexes avec le genre : elle permet de s’affranchir des normes dominantes de genre tout en (re)produisant une reproduction stratifiée, et donc des inégalités de sexe, classe et race. En 2010, nous avions écrit un article sur la PMA en France dans lequel nous montrions que, dans l...
Study question
How do young adults in the four Eastern European countries (North Macedonia, Slovenia, Kosovo and Albania) perceive and understand infertility issues and the MAR techniques?
Summary answer
Overall, young participants in the study in the four countries acknowledged that they are not familiar with MAR techniques available and technica...
Study question
What are the social representations of young Europeans of infertility and medically assisted reproduction (MAR)?
Summary answer
Young people generally expressed a desire for better representation of infertility and access to MAR in their country in order to normalise this subject.
What is known already
There is a lack of research o...
Recommendations Guidelines with international purpose, to improve Infertility Treatments and services across Europe.
Objective
To explore the quality of maternal and newborn care (QMNC) during the COVID‐19 pandemic by facility type among 16 European countries, comparing rates of instrumental vaginal birth and cesarean.
Methods
Women who gave birth in the WHO European Region from March 1, 2020, to February 7, 2022, answered a validated online questionnaire. Rates...
Objective
To describe the perception of quality of maternal and newborn care (QMNC) around the time of childbirth among migrant and nonmigrant women in Europe.
Methods
Women who gave birth at a health facility in 11 countries of the WHO European Region from March 2020 to July 2021 were invited to answer an online questionnaire including demographi...
Objective
To investigate potential associations between individual and country‐level factors and medicalization of birth in 15 European countries during the COVID‐19 pandemic.
Methods
Online anonymous survey of women who gave birth in 2020–2021. Multivariable multilevel logistic regression models estimating associations between indicators of medic...
Background
Around 186 million individuals are facing infertility worldwide, with a huge impact on their wellbeing. Fertility care is considered a key element to promote reproductive health. This study aims to explore young adults’ knowledge, perceptions and concerns about infertility and Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART), and to contrast it wi...
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Gestational surrogacy is a reproductive arrangement where a woman gestates a child for others—the “intended parents”—in order to be handed over to them after birth. Since the turn of the millennium, demands for surrogacy have continuously increased due to social and demographic changes, rising rates of infertility, and the normalization of new, non...
Study question
Are the young citizens’ perceptions and expectations on Assisted Reproduction Technologies (ART) aligned with the information that ART clinics offer to citizens?
Summary answer
There is a gap between young citizen’s perceptions and expectations and the information offered by ART providers taking into account gender, sociocultural, a...
Study question
Can we accurately estimate CBRC from France and provide new insight on CBRC patients’ experiences and motivations? We present preliminary results of a digital survey.
Summary answer
Estimating CBRC is an important methodological challenge that requires extensive dissemination and collaboration among ART medical centres to avoid tech...
Income disparity has become a mainstay of the international critique and public discourse on commercial surrogacy. Using existing empirical data, including our two respective field studies in India and the United States, we analyze surrogacy from a gender perspective and show how the visibility of gender disparities in a transnational context encou...
Becoming a parent has been described as a dominant social norm, especially for women. Though some research has indicated changes toward more flexible gendered parenthood norms, methodological issues may be masking the continued presence of a gender double standard. In line with the condition for activation of double standards, we postulated that en...
Le concept de "violences gynécologiques et obstétricales" a émergé au début des années 2000 en Amérique latine dans les milieux militants et scientifiques. Il a été repris à partir des années 2010 dans les débats féministes et politiques français et européens. Les militantes féministes, notamment à travers les réseaux sociaux et les médias, ont jou...
Background
Multi-country studies assessing the quality of maternal and newborn care (QMNC) during the COVID-19 pandemic, as defined by WHO Standards, are lacking.
Methods
Women who gave birth in 12 countries of the WHO European Region from March 1, 2020 - March 15, 2021 answered an online questionnaire, including 40 WHO Standard-based Quality Meas...
Rapport rendu à l'Agence de la Biomedecine sur le projet "L’autoconservation ovocytaire : différer la maternité pour raisons médicales ou sociales"
La loi de bioéthique a été révisée en 2021 pour tenir compte des avancées sociétales et médicales, notamment en matière d’aide médicale à la procréation (AMP). Un des objectifs était de limiter les recours à l’AMP qui se font en dehors du cadre légal et médical français. Comparativement à d’autres pays européens, la législation française reste néan...
Background
Multi-country studies assessing the quality of maternal and newborn care (QMNC) during the COVID19 pandemic, as defined by WHO Standards, are lacking.
Methods Women who gave birth in 12 countries of the WHO European Region from March 1, 2020 - March 15,
2021 answered an online questionnaire, including 40 WHO Standard-based Quality Measu...
Parce qu'elle touche à l'origine de la vie et à l'organisation sociale, la reproduction a de tous temps suscité l'imaginaire et les mythes. Qu'en est-il des imaginaires collectifs face aux technologies reproductives ? C'est ce que tente d'explorer cet ouvrage à travers des questionnements et des réflexions autour des représentations littéraires, cu...
Les violences obstétricales constituent un nouvel axe de recherche pour analyser l'expérience de certaines femmes lors du suivi médical de grossesse et de l'accouchement. Analysées dans une perspective intersectionnelle, celles-ci sont avant tout des violences de genre inscrites dans la construction socio-historique du corps reproducteur des femmes...
Depuis plusieurs décennies dans les sociétés occidentales, on assiste à une transformation de famille et de la parentalité, liée aux changements sociodémographiques et culturels mais aussi aux développement des techniques de reproduction assistée. Ces techniques permettent de concevoir un enfant quelles que soient les caractéristiques, les choix et...
BACKGROUND. Commercial surrogacy is a highly controversial issue that leads to heated debates in the feminist literature, especially when surrogacy takes place in developing countries and when it is performed by local women for wealthy international individuals. The objective of this article is to confront common assumptions with the narratives and...
L’approche de la gestation pour autrui (gpa) en Inde comme travail permet d’appréhender la complexité de cette réalité. Si, depuis une perspective féministe, la reproduction est considérée comme un travail, en Inde, la gpa est concrètement organisée comme tel. Les gestatrices elles-mêmes se représentent la gestation pour autrui comme une activité s...
Afin de tenir compte des avancées sociétales et médicales, la loi de bioéthique française qui encadre entre autre les modalités et l’accès à la procréation médicalement assistée (PMA) est révisée tous les 7 ans. En septembre 2019, un projet de révision de cette loi sera discuté à l’Assemblée Nationale suite aux Etats-Généraux de la bioéthique de 20...
Dans le cadre de la prochaine révision de la loi de bioéthique (prévue en 2019), l’autorisation de l’autoconservation ovocytaire pour raisons dites sociales constitue un élément de débats dans la société française. Objet de divers rapports institutionnels relayés par les médias, cette technique reste cependant une réalité peu documentée de façon em...
Résumé
Objectif
L’objectif est de mieux comprendre les projets parentaux et familiaux de futurs parents considérés « hors norme » en France (couples de même sexe, femmes seules, mères « âgées », couples qui recourent à un tiers) à partir de leurs propres discours et expériences et d’interroger, depuis une perspective sociodémographique, leurs impa...
Commercial surrogacy in emerging countries such as India is often associated with exploitation of vulnerable women, the assumption being that it is performed by poor and uneducated women for rich intended parents. However, the hypothesis that surrogates are poor women has rarely been confronted with field data. The objective was to compare the soci...
Database of the 96 surrogates.
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This paper was published in the French Institute of Andean Studies journal issue: Intimidades políticas.
Interpelaciones al sexo y a la sexualidad desde Bolivia, edited by Pascale Absi and Céline Geffroy. Spanish and English abstracts follow.
Resumen El artículo reflexiona en torno a elementos que afectan la decisión de las mujeres acerca de la rep...
This paper offers reflections about elements that affect women’s decisions about reproduction and abortion. It contributes to debates about policies, activist campaigns and the Bolivian Penal Code, in a context where inequalities and gender-based violence challenge the efficacy of technologies and laws to guarantee women’s ability to exercise the r...
While gestational surrogacy is illegal in France, it is authorized in other countries, such as India. Drawing upon a study of Indian surrogates, Indian and foreign intended parents pursuing surrogacy, as well as physicians, lawyers and Indian clinic and agency managers, Virginie Rozée, Sayeed Unisa and Elise de La Rochebrochard describe how surroga...
La gestation pour autrui (GPA) suscite de vifs débats en France et dans le monde. On sait pourtant peu de choses sur les représentations et expériences autour de cette pratique. L’étude menée en Inde auprès de médecins, parents et gestatrices montre une réalité complexe, tantôt décrite comme une situation de « gagnant-gagnant », tantôt comme un rec...
Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Global South and North critically analyses the political and social frameworks of ART, and its impacts in different countries. In the context of a worldwide social pressure to conceive – particularly for women – this collection explores the effect of the development of ARTs, growing globalisation and reprod...
Surrogacy is a burning issue in India and has often been denounced as exploitation of vulnerable women. However, it remains very poorly documented. The few existing social research studies show that India has become a top world destination for surrogacy due to strong demand, especially from foreigners, and the significant supply opportunity for poo...
L’assistance médicale à la procréation (AMP) permet aujourd’hui aux femmes, aux hommes et aux couples infertiles de réaliser un projet procréatif et parental. En France, cependant, elle est réservée aux couples hétérosexuels en âge de procréer et les techniques proposées privilégient une reproduction intra et bio-conjugale avec une participation ex...
Esta obra trata de las migraciones de mujeres y de hombres de América latina y de las transformaciones que provocan en las relaciones de género, en las familias y en la vida laboral, tanto en los países de destino como de origen. Este ángulo de análisis fue la columna vertebral de las presentaciones del simposio “Las migraciones femeninas en Améric...
Le "travail reproductif" désigne ici l'ensemble des activités liées à la fabrication d'enfant par le biais des biotechnologies dans le contexte actuel de mondialisation. Ce numéro interroge sous cet angle les incidences des nouvelles techniques reproductives sur la vie des femmes et le système de genre.
Surrogacy as a new reproductive technology is a growing practice and a burning issue on the transnational scene. The question of its legitimacy gives rise to new controversies since it creates complex relationships between rich people from the North and vulnerable women from the South. However, the literature in this area essentially tackles ethica...
Who are these French women who, by means of artificial insemination abroad, decide to conceive children without being within a couple (this type of artificial insemination is not possible in France). How do they set up their project? How do they justify it? Do their actions relate to feminism? Their stories show that their choice is one by default,...
What are the characteristics, motivation and experience of French patients seeking cross-border reproductive care (CBRC)?
French patients seeking CBRC are same-sex couples, single women who are not eligible for assisted reproduction technologies (ARTs) in France and heterosexual couples seeking oocyte donation due to extremely limited access to thi...
Study question
The study aimed to explore social characteristics, medical histories and experiences of cross-border reproductive care (CBRC) among French patients who were eligible for full funding for ART treatment in France.
Summary answer
Of the French CBRC patients, 49% fulfilled criteria for full funding for ART treatment in France. The major...
Infertility among heterosexual couples: gender and “management” of failure
In this paper, we focus on “management” and “treatment” of infertility among infertile heterosexual couples in French society. Before having such fertility problems, these couples met the social requirements for becoming parents. But the failure of the pregnancy project puts...
En France, l'assistance médicale à la procréation (AMP) avec tiers donneur n'est envisagée et proposée que comme ultime solution lorsque les autres traitements, intraconjugaux, ne peuvent aboutir. Les dons sont basés sur les principes d'anonymat et de gratuité. Le principe de gratuité veut garantir le principe français de non marchandisation du cor...
In this paper, we focus on "management" and "treatment" of infertility among infertile heterosexual couples in French society. Before having such fertility problems, these couples met the social requirements for becoming parents. But the failure of the pregnancy project puts them outside the dominant gendered norms of procreation, that is entry int...
*There are legal and medical disparities in use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) between various countries of the world, including of Europe, regarding conditions of access (to fulfil some sociodemographic criteria) and availability of medical technologies (techniques and methods which are legal and available). *These disparities lead to...
La disparité législative et médicale régissant le recours à l'assistance médicale à la procréation (AMP) dans le monde, y compris en Europe, crée un réel recours transnational. Cet article présente les premiers résultats d'une étude réalisée en France, Belgique, Grèce et Espagne, dont l'objectif est d'identifier et de comprendre les circuits transn...
En este articulo, analizamos los movimientos de mujeres latinoamericanas que surgen en la década de los años 1970, basándonos en una importante investigación sociológica, teórica y bibliográfica. Estas movilizaciones representan en la región y en cada uno de sus países un real "mosaico de diversidad", pero paradójicamente, algunas características y...
Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) have developed considerably over recent decades and account for approximately 2 per cent of births in Europe today. They have, however, been developed under highly heterogeneous legislative frameworks, with France being distinguished by restrictive access to ARTs. A comparison of this specific French framew...
In Bolivia, the abortion, considered as a crime against the life and the body's integrity, is still today a one of the principal claim of women's and feminist groups, and at the height of political and social argument. The theme has relatively been democratized and more political and social actions have integrated this social reality. However, the...
La pression des organismes internationaux, les politiques nationales, les mobilisations féminines en Amérique latine font évoluer les systèmes de genre. Résistances et changements.
El artículo aquí presentado se apoya sobre un estudio sociológico de la salud reproductiva y sexual de las mujeres bolivianas conducido in situ entre 2003 y 2006. La investigación describe y analiza las realidades reproductivas y sexuales de las mujeres bolivianas, paceñas y alteñas, y constituye un balance actual de la situación de los derechos re...
The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is an international tool key for the progress of gender equality and the defence of women’s rights, at the same time necessary but non sufficient to improve the condition and the situation of woman. Bolivia ratified the CEDAW in 1989, and so committed to organize...
La Convention sur l’Elimination de toutes les formes de Discrimination à l’Egard des Femmes (CEDAW) est un outil international clé pour le progrès de l’égalité de genre et la défense des droits des femmes, à la fois nécessaire mais non suffisant pour améliorer la condition et la situation de ces dernières. La Bolivie a ratifié la CEDAW en 1989, s’e...
Las representaciones y practicas culturales que existen acerca de la reproducción y de la sexualidad son elementos claves para abordar la salud reproductiva y sexual, y los derechos respectivos en Bolivia. Por la fuerte diversidad cultural del país, no existe uno sino varios patrones del comportamiento reproductivo y sexual. Los aymaras consideran...
Ante la constatación que la discriminación contra las mujeres era general y universal, a la vez causa y consecuencia del bienestar y del desarrollo de los países, las Naciones Unidas aprobaron en 1979 la Convención sobre la Eliminación de todas las formas de Discriminación contra la Mujer, o CEDAW, una convención firmada por todos los Estados latin...
In 1979 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which commits signatory states to adopt and implement a series of legal measures on equality of men and women and all discrimination based on gender. All Latin American states have ratified the CEDAW and have i...
This paper is an account of the evidence collected and observations carried out within three public hospitals in La Paz and El Alto (Bolivia) in 2004. It aims to show the reproductive reality of the Bolivian women we met with, a revealing reality from the exercise relating to their reproductive and sexual rights, recently acknowledged as human righ...
