Managing Infertility Among Women in Rural Parts of Kisumu by

MOI UNIVERSITY – MAIN CAMPUS
SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY

MANAGING INFERTILITY AMONG WOMEN IN RURAL PARTS OF KISUMU
BY
JAJ ALVINE OTIENO

A RESEARCH PROPOSAL SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT FOR DEGREE IN SOCIAL STUDIES
(SOCIOLOGY)

Table of Content

List of Figures
Figure 1 Kisumu District 2006-2008 infertility record
Figure 2 Prevalence of infertility

Glossary
Infertility Inability to procreate within a year
Sterility Inability to produce a child
Fecundity Is the capacity/ability/potentiality to produce a live child
Primary infertility denotes infertility of women who have never conceived

Secondary infertility denotes infertility of women who have conceived at least once

Ectopic Pregnancy Is a pregnancy in which the implantation of the embryo occurs outside the uterine cavity

Hypofertility Signifies the biological inability to bear children

Child Deficit Occurs when the ideal numbers of births outnumbers the actual number of births for the individual who have been exposed to sexual intercourse for years (5 years)

Abbreviations

“norro” The local term for gonorrhea

STIs Sexually Transmitted Infections

HIV/AIDS Humino Deficiency Syndrome/Arquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

WHO World Health Organization

PID Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

IVF In vitro fertilization

ICSI Intracytoplasmic sperm injection

SPSS Statistical Package for the Social Sciences

1.0 CHAPTER ONE

1.1 Background to the study

This chapter presents an overview of global trends of infertility and also reveals the community views on the causes, effects and treatment of infertility. The chapter covers statement of the problems, objectives, and hypothesis as well as research questions.

Anthropological studies categorize causes of infertility into two broad groupings: traditional and naturalistic (Gerrits, 1997). The former may be classified into

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