tailieunhanh - Accelerating Reproductive and Child Health Program Development: The Navrongo Initiative in Ghana

People are motivated to use ART to have a genetically related child, and circumstances vary widely: couples in which one person is infertile; 4 lesbian couples; gay male couples; a couple in which one or both partners are transgender; single straight, queer and trans women and men; women undergoing chemotherapy; women who want to delay childbearing; and couples who want to use pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to screen against disability or for sex. As genetic screening becomes more popular, affordable, and able to test for a greater number of characteristics, it is possible that more people who are not infertile. | POLICY RESEARCH DIVISION Child Health Program Development The Navrongo Initiative in Ghana James F. Phillips Ayaga A. Bawah Fred N. Binka 2005 No. 208 Population Council One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza New York New York 10017 USA pubinfo@ This material may not be reproduced without written permission from the authors. For a list of Policy Research Division Working Papers including those that are currently available for downloading in PDF format see publications wp prd . ISSN 1554-8538 2005 The Population Council Inc. Accelerating Reproductive and Child Health Program Development The Navrongo Initiative in Ghana James F. Phillips Ayaga A. Bawah Fred N. Binka James F. Phillips is Senior Associate and Ayaga A. Bawah is Berelson Fellow Policy Research Division Population Council. Fred N. Binka is Executive Director INDEPTH-Network Accra Ghana. This research was funded by grants to the Navrongo Health Research Centre for its Demographic Surveillance System from the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. The Community Health and Family Planning Project has been funded by grants to the Population Council from the United States Agency for International Development and the Finnish International Development .