It is important to consider this in the context of global health,
since as I have shown, M. genitalium has been found to be extremely prevalent among certain African populations. Also, given the high prevalence of HIV in Africa and the frequent co-infection of HIV and M. genitalium, an M. genitalium epidemic might arguably coincide with the HIV epidemic in this region.

In the context of global infertility then, one might wonder if infertility rates seem to be higher in parts of Africa and other developing countries.

Although you can see in this map that the prevalence of primary infertility is relatively low throughout sub-Saharan Africa, likely due to the fact that women in Africa have their first child at a very young age,