Fertility vs Infertility

FERTILITY VS INFERTILITY

In women fertility is the ability to ovulate and conceive. The child bearing age sets in upon menarche and cedes with the onset of menopause. The inability to get pregnant in some African cultures is perceived as a Divine punishemnt. In such communities infertile women are treated with empathy.This painting portrays the psychosocial impact of inferftility in Africa. It mirrors an infertile sad woman desperately wishing to be pregnant. In Africa such desires are hard to obtain. Health care Delivery is not up to the world standard. Medical science and technology is at its early stage of progress in some regions of Africa. In such circumstances women are prone to affective disorders such as anxiety neurosis and depression. They develope somes feelings  of incompleteness and inferiority.

Mohamed Osman

physician & artist