Does the transnational process of gamete selection challenge ways mobilizing race and whiteness? Based on a mobile ethnography fertility industry, I argue that experts intended parents (IP) co-produce desirability whiteness through “racial matching” for white, heterosexual IP, “strategic hybridization”, or strategic mixing gametes, some same-sex IP who do not identify as white. Although disrupt...

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BACKGROUND Little is known about the fertility desires of HIV infected individuals on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). In order to contribute more knowledge to this topic we conducted a study to determine if HIV-infected persons on HAART have different fertility desires compared to persons not on HAART, and if the knowledge about HIV transmission from mother-to-child is different i...

background : childbearing is a cause of concern for women living with hiv. to improve reproductive right of wom-en with hiv and prevent the spread of hiv; it is needed to understand fertility experiences of infected women with hiv. the aim of this study was to explore fertility intentions and experiences of hiv-infected women in iran. methods : totally, 15 in–depth interviews were conducted wit...

This study describes the fertility intentions and discusses the potential reproductive health needs of post-natal HIV-infected Ugandan women. HIV-infected mothers attending post-natal services in Kampala, Uganda participated in this cross-sectional study using structured interviewer administered questionnaires. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression models were used to identify predicto...

Recent trends in fertility and contraceptive prevalence indicate that the marital fertility transition in Pakistan, which has been anticipated for three decades, has begun in the 1990s. Before that decade, the total fertility rate had exceeded six births per woman for at least three decades, and fewer than 10 percent of married women practiced contraception. The most recent survey data, collect...

Realism for agents with unconditional beliefs, desires and intentions (BDI agents) has been analyzed in modal logic. This paper provides a logical analysis of realism for agents with conditional beliefs and desires in a rule based approach analogous to Reiter’s default logic. We distinguish two types of realism, which we call ‘a priori’ and ‘a posteriori’ realism. We analyze whether these two n...