ACCEPTABILITY OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY AS TREATMENT MODALITY FOR INFERTILITY IN IJEBU-YORUBA, SOUTH-WESTERN, NIGERIA.

Studies on Infertility and its cure in Nigeria have focused largely on traditional, spiritual and orthodox approaches while bio-technology and other Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) as treatment options have received negligible attention. Employing both qualitative and quantitative data collection techniques, the study established that several socio-cultural factors encapsulated in patriarchy had impinged on the acceptance and adoption of bio-technological intervention.
The study found that education (χ2 =8.50,df =8,N=732,P>0.05), gender(χ2 =0.09,df =2,N=732,P>0.05) and age (χ2 =1.6,df=4,N=732,P>0.05) respectively have no significance on the acceptability of ART, but ethnographic data revealed otherwise. Income(χ2=276.741,df=8,N=732,P>0.05), cultural belief (χ2=481.823,df=4,N=732,P>0.05), patriarchal relation (χ2=538.043,df=6,N=732,P>0.05), family support (χ2=533.04,df =6,N=732,P>0.05) and location of the care centre (χ2 =0.808,df =2,N=732,P>0.05) act as strong determinant of acceptability of ART