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
Sama conducted a review to examine possible factors that may have facilitated the slight improvement in the 2011 census sex ratio figures for Punjab. Towards this, interviews were conducted with key informants – academics, activists, lawyers with a long engagement on… Continue reading
Sama Resource Group for Women and Health, Delhi is happy to announce the release of, 1. Birthing a Market, a report on the study on commercial surrogacy. The study undertaken by Sama analyses the perspectives of various actors, surrogates, agents, doctors and commissioning… Continue reading
Preeti Nayak, Vrinda Marwah | Medico Friend Circle Bulletin | Feb-July 2011 While instances of commercial surrogacy have risen by leaps and bounds (a recent article in a leading national daily estimates that the cost of the surrogacy market is… Continue reading
2010 | Sama This report is based on the international consultation organised by Sama during 22-24 January 2010 in Delhi. The consultation focussed on the commercial, economic and ethical aspects of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) Sama has been voicing the… Continue reading
2006 | Sama As part of the health movement and the autonomous women’s movement, Sama has consistently campaigned against technologies that target women’s bodies whether to assist birth, control birth or facilitate the determination of the sex of the foetus. It… Continue reading
