Publications
How women and providers perceive male partner resistance to contraceptives in Western Kenya: a qualitative study Institute of Tropical Medicine
OBJECTIVE: Almost a fifth of Kenyan women who desire to delay or avoid pregnancy are not using modern contraception. The objective of this study is to describe how Kenyan women, healthcare providers, and health policymakers perceive male partner resistance to function as a barrier to women's experiences attempting to obtain contraceptives.
METHODS: We used a qualitative description approach to analyze the transcripts from a ...
“If I have only two children and they die… who will take care of me?” –a qualitative study exploring knowledge, attitudes and practices about family planning among Mozambican female and male adults Vrije Universiteit Brussel University of Antwerp Ghent University
Background: By focusing upon family planning counselling services, the Mozambican government has significantly
enhanced the general health of female and male clients. However, little is known about the experiences of family
planning by female and male adults. This article focuses on knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding
contraceptive methods and fertility intentions.
Methods: An in-depth ...
Sporadic male patients with intellectual disability Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven
Genome-wide array comparative genome hybridization has become the first in line diagnostic tool in the clinical work-up of patients presenting with intellectual disability. As a result, chromosome X-copy number variations are frequently being detected in routine diagnostics. We retrospectively reviewed genome wide array-CGH data in order to determine the frequency and nature of chromosome X-copy number variations (X-CNV) in a cohort of 2222 ...
Oncofertility: Pharmacological Protection and Immature Testicular Tissue (ITT)-Based Strategies for Prepubertal and Adolescent Male Cancer Patients Vrije Universiteit Brussel
While the incidence of cancer in children and adolescents has significantly increased over the last decades, improvements made in the field of cancer therapy have led to an increased life expectancy for childhood cancer survivors. However, the gonadotoxic effect of the treatments may lead to infertility. Although semen cryopreservation represents the most efficient and safe fertility preservation method for males producing sperm, it is not ...