the relationship between religion, culture, cost, ethics, and husband perception with the decision of women's utilization of assisted reproductive technology as method of infertility management

Context: infertility is a global health problem characterized by inability of couple to achieve pregnancy after oneyear of regular unprotected sexual intercourse; or after 6 months if the woman is older than 35 years of age.aims: to examine the effect of determinants on the utilization of assisted reproductive technology (art)among womensetting and design: this is a cross sectional survey design conducted on women at the obstetrics,gynaecology and fertility clinics in university of benin teaching hospital, benin-city, nigeria, 2020.material and methods: this study was conducted among 348 women, selected through stratified probabilitysampling method, and a self-structured questionnaire was designed, administered and same retrieved.statistical analysis used: data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics, means, standard deviation(sd) and pearson correlation coefficient at 0.05 significant levels.results: the mean (sd) of the determinants: religion, culture, cost, ethics, and husband perception were asfollows: 2.47 ± 1.28, 2.34 ± 1.20, 3.37 ± 1.25, 2.35 ± 1.09, 2.33 ± 1.13 respectively. the pearson correlationcoefficient, shows significant relationship (p=<0.001, p=0.023) between cost, husband perception andthe women decision, while there are no statistical relationship (p=0.591, p=0.892, p=0.934) betweenreligion, culture, ethics and the decision for art among women.conclusion: the cost of art is a major factor, therefore, there is need for international efforts to facilitateglobalization of art services with special attention to manpower development, subsidization of the runningcost and establishment a global partnership as obtained in the sustainable development goals (sdgs).