The Third National Health Assembly was a two-day long event in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, and saw nationwide participation of organisations and individuals working on health and healthcare, in different capacities. As part of the Self Organised Workshops sessions on the first… Continue reading
While infertility and childlessness have emerged as affecting between 8 to 12 percent of reproductive aged couples worldwide and approximately 28 per cent in India and Nepal, there is a severe lack of attention given to these issues in the… Continue reading
The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016 is listed for the session of Parliament which begins in July 2018. Sama has prepared a Policy Brief addressing the issues and concerns around the bill in its current form. Download PDF Continue reading
This article is part of the edited volume titled Cross-Cultural Comparisons on Surrogacy and Egg Donation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives From India, Germany and Israel, edited by Sayani Mitra, Silke Schicktanz and Tulsi Patel, and published by Springer Verlag, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham in 2018. This chapter is part of Sama’s attempt to advance more clarity and nuance on the vexed question of commercial surrogacy in India. Continue reading
This article by Sarojini Nadimpally and Vrinda Marwah is part of the edited volume titled Equity and Access: Healthcare Studies in India. The volume is edited by Purendra Prasad, Amar Jesani and Sujata Patel, and published by the Oxford University Press in 2018. Continue reading
This article is part of the edited volume titled Re-Presenting Feminist Methodologies:
Interdisciplinary Explorations, edited by Kalpana Kannabiran, Padmini Swaminathan and published by Routledge India in 2017. This chapter analyses how the need to study and critically engage with assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) and their significant offshoot commercial gestational surrogacy has marked our decade-long engagement as a women’s health group. Continue reading
