Inhalt/Contents: ***Marcia C. Inhorn: Preface **Sylvie Schuster & Viola Hörbst: Introduction **Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg, Flavien Ndonko & Song Yang: The Social Management of Fetal and Infant Death: Dual Disruptions to Reproductive Lives and Discourses **Chioma Opara: The Barren Woman as an Outsider in Igbo Society of Nigeria **Viola Hörbst: Infertility and In-vitro Fertilization in Bamako, Mali: Women's Experience, Avenues for Solution and Social Contexts Impacting on Gynaecological Consultions **Johanne Sundby & Ulla Larsen: Health Care Services for Infertility in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Moshi in Northern Tanzania **Sylvie Schuster: Rumors on "Sterilizin" Vaccines: Mistrust, Bioethics and Research on New Contraceptive Technologies **Carolyn Sargent: Lamenting the "Winter" of French Fertility: Politiv¿cs, Power, and Reproduction among Malian Migrants in Paris **Elisha Renne: Abortion as Illegal Conduct and Its Sequelae in Nigeria ***Berichte / Reprts / Buchbesprechungen / Book Reviews ***Anita Zahlteng: Building Bridges to Enhance Quality of Life. 12th Anual Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL), San Francisco Oct. 2005 **Katharina Kübler: Frauengesundheit weltweit: 12. FIDE-Kongress befasst sich mit Gyn/auml;kologie in Entwicklungsländern, Halle/Saale 18.-20.11.2005 *Anhang: Brucsaler Thesen der FIDE Tagung Oktober 2004 in Bruchsal **Wolfgang Krahl:Bericht über das Symposium "Mental Health in Entwicklungsländern am 3.12.2005 in München **Assia Maria Harwazinski: Anmerkungen zu Ousmane Sembenes neuem Film "Moolaade" (Frankreich 2004, deutsch "Bann der Hoffnung", 2005) **Peter Möhring: Paul Parin zum 90sten. Rezension von Paul Parin, Fritz Morgenthaler, Goldy Parin-Matthey "F/uuml;rchte Deinen Nächsten wie Dich selbst. Psychoanalyse und Geselschaft am Modell der Agni in Westafrika". **Buchbesprechungen/Bookreviews **Dokumentation: Journal of AFRICAN PSYCHOLOGY (South of the Sahara, The Caribbean and Afro-Latin America), Inhalt Vol. 1, Nr. 1(1988) - Vol. 13,2(2003) **Resumes des articles curare 29(2006)1 **Autorinnen und Autoren des Heftes