Infertility affects 20% of couples in Nigeria. Assisted reproductive techniques (ART) offered in Nigeria include in-vitro fertilization (IVF), gamete donation and surrogacy. This cross-sectional questionnaire study aimed at assessing the acceptability of ART to women seeking infertility treatment at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. Of the 307 respondents, 58.3% were aware of IV...

The diffi culty and expense of having a baby through surrogacy in the West is driving thousands of couples to India where a lack of red tape and highquality medical care means that the process is easy, cheap, and hassle-free. Commercial surrogacy was legalised in India in 2002, as part of the country’s drive to promote medical tourism, an industry that the Confederation of Indian Industry predi...

The comparative approach regarding the ethics of surrogacy from the Western secular and Islamic bioethical view reveals both commensurable and incommensurable relationship. Both are eager to achieve the welfare of the mother, child and society as a whole but the approaches are not always the same. Islamic bioethics is straightforward in prohibiting surrogacy by highlighting the lineage problem ...

While Korea does not have any legal statement on surrogacy, treatments are carried out in practice. As a result, every Institutional Review Board (IRB) of each fertility clinic faces an ethical predicament in reviewing each case. There is a need to arrange the institutions' own standards of surrogate pregnancy procedures before the establishment of national or professional regulation. This arti...

A two-stage model for evaluating both trial-level and patient-level surrogacy of correlated time-to-event endpoints has been introduced, using patient-level data when multiple clinical trials are available. However, the associated maximum likelihood approach often suffers from numerical problems when different baseline hazards among trials and imperfect estimation of treatment effects are assum...

There has been great recent interest in the medical and statistical literature in the assessment and validation of surrogate endpoints as proxies for clinical endpoints in medical studies. More recently, authors have focused on using metaanalytical methods for quantification of surrogacy. In this article, we extend existing procedures for analysis based on the accelerated failure time model to ...

Background: There has been little interest in the research literature on public opinions regarding assisted conception and surrogacy, particularly in Iran. Nevertheles, the growing evidence shows that problems in adaptation and coping may be related to perceived normative values. Materials and Methods: In this cross sectional study, questionnaires on attitudes to surrogacy were completed by 187...

Surrogacy is a family building option for people unable to conceive or carry pregnancy. In heterosexual couples seeking surrogacy, woman who not the intended father’s partner, facilitates this Whilst normative discourses reinforced by contemporary healthcare policies highlight importance of involving fathers throughout pregnancy, little known about heterosexually partnered men’s experiences sur...

Providing health care for a woman with a surrogate pregnancy involves unique challenges. Although the ethical debate surrounding surrogacy continues, Canada has banned commercial, but not altruistic, surrogacy. In the event of a custody dispute between a surrogate mother and the individual(s) intending to parent the child, it is unclear how Canadian courts would rule. The prenatal health care p...