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  • Patients and family of patients spend many hours at the waiting area in the compounds of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Hospital, New Delhi, the largest hospital in India, on 18th October 2008 in New Delhi, India. Photo : Suzanne Lee
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  • Patients and family of patients spend many hours at the waiting area in the compounds of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Hospital, New Delhi, the largest hospital in India, on 18th October 2008 in New Delhi, India. Photo : Suzanne Lee
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  • Dr. Shirish Jain, Deputy Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of the Ghaziabad District, sits for a portrait in his office in * Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Panos London
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  • Dr. Sanjay Agarwal, Deputy Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of the Ghaziabad District, sits for a portrait in his office, a barren room furnished only by an empty table and a cabinet, in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Panos London
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  • Patients and family of patients spend many hours at the waiting area in the compounds of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Hospital, New Delhi, the largest hospital in India, on 18th October 2008 in New Delhi, India. Photo : Suzanne Lee
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  • Dr. Hari Dutt Nemi, Chief Medical Superintendent (CMS) of Muradnagar in his office in the Muradnagar Community Health Centre (CHC) in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Panos London
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  • (L-R) Dr. Suresh Dwivedi, Chief Medical Superintendent (CMS) of the Allahabad District, and Dr. Najmi Rehman, Principal of the Regional Family Planning Training Centre, pose for a portrait together in Dr. Dwivedi's office in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Panos London
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  • Dr. Suresh Dwivedi, Chief Medical Superintendent (CMS) of the Allahabad District, poses for a portrait in his office in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Panos London
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel, chats after doing an ultrasound on Bharti Utrekar, a surrogate who is 7 months pregnant with twins for an American couple, at the Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center that she founded with her husband, Dr. Hitesh, in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012. Dr. Patel had done her first successful surrogacy birth in 2003, and has delivered over 565 babies since the clinic's establishment. When choosing surrogates, they are counseled, and screened following a stringent guideline. Surrogates must be married and have completed their own families with their own children, and the couple must be medically, physically, psychologically, emotionally and mentally sound. While 15% of couples are infertile globally, only 6% of infertility cases require surrogacy as a last option. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel, sits at her desk in her Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center that she founded with her husband, Dr. Hitesh, in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. She had done her first successful surrogacy birth in 2003, and has delivered over 565 babies since the clinic's establishment. When choosing surrogates, they are counseled, and screened following a stringent guideline. Surrogates must be married and have completed their own families with their own children, and the couple must be medically, physically, psychologically, emotionally and mentally sound. While 15% of couples are infertile globally, only 6% of infertility cases require surrogacy as a last option. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel, does an ultrasound on Bharti Utrekar, a surrogate who is 7 months pregnant with twins for an American couple, at the Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center that she founded with her husband, Dr. Hitesh, in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012. Dr. Patel had done her first successful surrogacy birth in 2003, and has delivered over 565 babies since the clinic's establishment. When choosing surrogates, they are counseled, and screened following a stringent guideline. Surrogates must be married and have completed their own families with their own children, and the couple must be medically, physically, psychologically, emotionally and mentally sound. While 15% of couples are infertile globally, only 6% of infertility cases require surrogacy as a last option. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel (center), sits at her desk in her Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center that she founded with her husband, Dr. Hitesh, in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. She had done her first successful surrogacy birth in 2003, and has delivered over 565 babies since the clinic's establishment. When choosing surrogates, they are counseled, and screened following a stringent guideline. Surrogates must be married and have completed their own families with their own children, and the couple must be medically, physically, psychologically, emotionally and mentally sound. While 15% of couples are infertile globally, only 6% of infertility cases require surrogacy as a last option. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel, sits at her desk in her Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center that she founded with her husband, Dr. Hitesh, in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. She had done her first successful surrogacy birth in 2003, and has delivered over 565 babies since the clinic's establishment. When choosing surrogates, they are counseled, and screened following a stringent guideline. Surrogates must be married and have completed their own families with their own children, and the couple must be medically, physically, psychologically, emotionally and mentally sound. While 15% of couples are infertile globally, only 6% of infertility cases require surrogacy as a last option. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Patients wait around to see the doctors at the Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Barbara, from Canada, wakes her baby as her surrogate, Idan, comes to breastfeed the baby in her hotel room near the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Barbara, from Canada, had come to receive him at his birth from Idan, her surrogate, and is waiting for her husband to come and join her in Anand, while she continues to hire Idan to breastfeed her son so that he gets the best start in life. Idan's husband sends pumped breast milk to Barbara's hotel in the evenings when Idan cannot come personally. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Archana, an ex-surrogate, looks into her accounts, as she continues to work with Dr. Nayana Patel catering specially prepared tiffin meals to the surrogates and Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy clinic staff, which she prepares in her house with her family in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Kantibhai Solanki (center), 38, looks out to their farm and buffalo at their house, built using the money his wife, Sharda made from doing 2 surrogacies, in Anand, Gujarat, India on 9th December 2012. While Kantibhai works as a security guard earning 5000 rupees per month, Sharda, 36, had made hundreds of thousands with 2 surrogacies that she did with Akanksha Clinic, which she used to buy land, buffaloes, build washrooms in her house and extend the house. She had also saved a substantial amount to fund her 3 children's educations and make sure that her 2 daughters will find husbands to match their current status. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • (L-R) Amit (13), Dharma (18, soon to be married), Akanksha (8), Tribhuvan Adivasi (50), Kelaji Adivasi (45), and Vinita's (23, married when 14, has 3 children) baby. Tribhuvan, a farm labourer, says that "it was a mistake to have so many children. Food is difficult for us." Kelaji and Tribhuvan have a total of 6 children and live in poverty in Baul ka Dhera hamlet, Mugari Village, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Allahabad, a poorer district of the state of Uttar Pradesh, is the most populated district of the most populous state of India. While Ghaziabad, located close to India's capital city, Delhi, has a population of 4,661,452 with a sex ratio of 878 girls against every 1000 boys, and a high literary percentage of 85%, Allahabad, has a population of 5,959,798 and a sex ratio of 902 girls against every 1000 boys and a literacy rate of 74.41%. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Panos London
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  • Jagroshan Sharma (aged 36, in grey) approaches random villagers from Shahpurjat village with Dr. Meenal Mehta (in blue), who is in charge of the USAID NSV projects in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. After doing NSV himself, he has been a star link worker introducing about 5 NSV cases per month since he started working part time under the tutelage of Dr Mehta. Jagroshan had chosen to do a non-scalpel vasectomy (NSV) for many reasons. He wanted to be an equal partner in the relationship, knew that NSV was less complicated and will not put his wife through numerous problems, and wants his two children to do well in life and study in English medium schools despite his modest earnings. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Panos London
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  • Seema Gupta (aged 34, foreground) poses for a portrait while her sons play in the room in her shophouse in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Seema Gupta had a tubectomy done on 9 June 2011 for family planning while her husband, Ramesh Chandra Gupta (38), wasn't aware of the option and benefits of non-scalpel vasectomy (NSV). They run a roadside sweets shop at the front of their house and chose to have a family planning surgery done as they did not want to compromise the quality of life for their two children. While Ramesh wanted only 1 child, both his mother and Seema pushed for a 2nd child. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Panos London
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  • One of Seema Gupta's children plays in their shophouse in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Seema Gupta, aged 34 (unseen), had a tubectomy done on 9 June 2011 for family planning while her husband, Ramesh Chandra Gupta, aged 38 (unseen), wasn't aware of the option and benefits of non-scalpel vasectomy (NSV). They run a roadside sweets shop at the front of their house and chose to have a family planning surgery done as they did not want to compromise the quality of life for their two children. While Ramesh wanted only 1 child, both his mother and Seema pushed for a 2nd child. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Panos London
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  • Three surrogates (Bharti Utrekar in center) who are in their 7th month of pregnancy perform a Hindu prayer at their baby shower organised for them at the surrogate's house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • 9 months pregnant, Leela Mekwan (center), 34, waits for a doctor's checkup in preparation for her Caesarian section delivery today in the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Nurse Sejal Parmar (center), 32, weighs and wraps a new born baby after a surrogate went into labor and gave birth unexpectedly in the Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates laze around and chat in the surrogate's hostel in the compound of the Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates spend a lot of time chatting on their mobile phones with family and friends, as they spend the entire pregnancy mostly shrouded in secrecy, in the surrogate's house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Bharti Utrekar (center), who is pregnant with twins for an American client, chats with other surrogates after her baby shower, organised on the 7th month of pregnancy, in the surrogate's house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates in their daily lives, as they spend the entire pregnancy, in the surrogate's house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates in their daily lives, as they spend the entire pregnancy, in the surrogate's house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Barbara, from Canada, looks on as her surrogate, Idan, comes to breastfeed the baby in her hotel room near the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Barbara, from Canada, had come to receive him at his birth from Idan, her surrogate, and is waiting for her husband to come and join her in Anand, while she continues to hire Idan to breastfeed her son so that he gets the best start in life. Idan's husband sends pumped breast milk to Barbara's hotel in the evenings when Idan cannot come personally. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Barbara, from Canada, chooses baby music CDs as she carries her baby in her hotel room near the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Barbara, from Canada, had come to receive him at his birth from Idan, her surrogate, and is waiting for her husband to come and join her in Anand, while she continues to hire Idan to breastfeed her son so that he gets the best start in life. Idan's husband sends pumped breast milk to Barbara's hotel in the evenings when Idan cannot come personally. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • A lady walks into a the waiting room outside the operation theater of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha clinic  in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates pass their time watching the happenings outside through their windows in the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dhiraj Khristi, 36, hugs his daughter at their farm house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 9th December 2012. While Dhiraj and his wife Pinki used to make 2000-5000 rupees per month from farming and as labourers, she had made over 850,000 from both her surrogacies and had bought land, buffaloes and saved 320,000 rupees in a fixed deposit that they plan to use for their daughter's future education. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Leela Mekwan (center), 34, sits with her husband Jayantibhai (left), 38,  as a nurse, Sejal Parmar, 32, looks on in the Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 9th December 2012. Leela is 9 months pregnant with her 2nd surrogacy that she is doing with Dr. Nayana Patel and has support from her immediate family including her 2 sons. Photo by Suzanne Lee/Marie-Claire France
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  • (L-R) Amit (13), Tribhuvan Adivasi (50), Dharma (18, soon to be married), Vinita (23, married when 14, has 3 children), Vinita's baby, Kelaji Adivasi (45), and Akanksha (8) stand in the doorway of their house. Tribhuvan, a farm labourer, says that "it was a mistake to have so many children. Food is difficult for us." Kelaji and Tribhuvan have a total of 6 children and live in poverty in Baul ka Dhera hamlet, Mugari Village, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Allahabad, a poorer district of the state of Uttar Pradesh, is the most populated district of the most populous state of India. While Ghaziabad, located close to India's capital city, Delhi, has a population of 4,661,452 with a sex ratio of 878 girls against every 1000 boys, and a high literary percentage of 85%, Allahabad, has a population of 5,959,798 and a sex ratio of 902 girls against every 1000 boys and a literacy rate of 74.41%. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Panos London
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  • Sitara's (aged 35, unseen) 7 children (5 daughters & 2 sons) cook for the breaking of fast during the month of Ramadhan and take care of each other in their small house in a village in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. "I wish that I could stop getting pregnant but our religion says that children are a gift of God." says Sitara, an illiterate muslim lady whose husband works as a vegetable vendor in the local village market. They have resisted all advises of permanent sterilization from the local village-level health workers. Children from left to right : Ajman (5), Rani (7), Chandni (14), Roshni (10), Tamanna (8 months), Asif (3), and Sufia (8). Photo by Suzanne Lee / Panos London
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  • Shashi Devi (aged 28) sits for a portrait in her house in the village of Shahpurjat, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. While Shashi had a tubectomy done after having 2 sons, Monika, her brother-in-law's wife, is still trying for a son after having 2 daughters. Shashi did the operation because she wanted to "give her 2 children the best and inflation will make things difficult", and she believes that a "small family is a happy family". She has been pushing Monika to get her husband to do an NSV so that Monika's life is not endangered since her previous pregnancies have been complicated. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Ajay Singh (right) talks of the importance of family planning with Dr. Meenal Mehta (unseen) as he cares for 2 of his grand children in the village of Shahpurjat, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. While his elder daughter-in-law has had a tubectomy done after having 2 sons, his younger daughter-in-law is still pushing for a son after having 2 daughters so far. Ajay has even suggested that his two daughter-in-laws exchange a daughter for a son in order to solve the issue of his younger daughter-in-law's desire for a son. USAID NSV project part time link worker Radhey Shyam (aged 44, top left) listens. Radhey has just received his 'no sperm certificate' today 1.5 months after his NSV. He has 4 children and is very happy about his decision to have an NSV. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Panos London
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  • Jagroshan Sharma (aged 36, in grey) and his family in their home in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Jagroshan had chosen to do a non-scalpel vasectomy (NSV) for many reasons. He wanted to be an equal partner in the relationship, knew that NSV was less complicated and will not put his wife through numerous problems, and wants his two children to do well in life and study in English medium schools despite his modest earnings. He now works part time as a link worker under the tutelage of Dr Meenal Mehta (unseen) who works with USAID on the NSV project in Uttar Pradesh, India. Jagroshan has been the star link worker, doing about 5 cases of NSV cases per month since he started. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Panos London
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  • Jagroshan Sharma (aged 36, in grey) and his family in their home in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Jagroshan had chosen to do a non-scalpel vasectomy (NSV) for many reasons. He wanted to be an equal partner in the relationship, knew that NSV was less complicated and will not put his wife through numerous problems, and wants his two children to do well in life and study in English medium schools despite his modest earnings. He now works part time as a link worker under the tutelage of Dr Meenal Mehta (unseen) who works with USAID on the NSV project in Uttar Pradesh, India. Jagroshan has been the star link worker, doing about 5 cases of NSV cases per month since he started. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Panos London
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  • Ramesh Chandra Gupta (aged 38, left) poses for a portrait outside his shophouse in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. His wife, Seema Gupta (aged 34) had a tubectomy done on 9 June 2011 for family planning while they weren't aware of the option and benefits of non-scalpel vasectomy (NSV). They run a roadside sweets shop at the front of their house and chose to have a family planning surgery done as they did not want to compromise the quality of life for their two children. While Ramesh wanted only 1 child, both his mother and Seema pushed for a 2nd child. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Panos London
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  • A surrogate's child comes to visit as other surrogates laze around and chat with each other, as they spend the entire pregnancy, in the surrogate's house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • A surrogate passes her time chatting on her mobile phone in the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Barbara, from Canada, carries her baby after her surrogate, Idan, has breastfed the baby in her hotel room near the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Barbara, from Canada, had come to receive him at his birth from Idan, her surrogate, and is waiting for her husband to come and join her in Anand, while she continues to hire Idan to breastfeed her son so that he gets the best start in life. Idan's husband sends pumped breast milk to Barbara's hotel in the evenings when Idan cannot come personally. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Idan, who just gave birth to Barbara's baby, holds his hand as she breastfeeds the baby in her hotel room near the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Barbara, from Canada, had come to receive him at his birth from Idan, her surrogate, and is waiting for her husband to come and join her in Anand, while she continues to hire Idan to breastfeed her son so that he gets the best start in life. Idan's husband sends pumped breast milk to Barbara's hotel in the evenings when Idan cannot come personally. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Kantibhai Solanki (center), 38, looks out to their farm and buffalo at their house, built using the money his wife, Sharda made from doing 2 surrogacies, in Anand, Gujarat, India on 9th December 2012. While Kantibhai works as a security guard earning 5000 rupees per month, Sharda, 36, had made hundreds of thousands with 2 surrogacies that she did with Akanksha Clinic, which she used to buy land, buffaloes, build washrooms in her house and extend the house. She had also saved a substantial amount to fund her 3 children's educations and make sure that her 2 daughters will find husbands to match their current status. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dhiraj Khristi, 36, hugs his daughter at their farm house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 9th December 2012. While Dhiraj and his wife Pinki used to make 2000-5000 rupees per month from farming and as labourers, she had made over 850,000 from both her surrogacies and had bought land, buffaloes and saved 320,000 rupees in a fixed deposit that they plan to use for their daughter's future education. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates spend a lot of time chatting on their mobile phones with family and friends, as they spend the entire pregnancy mostly shrouded in secrecy, in the surrogate's house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Pregnant surrogates wait for their check-ups with Dr. Nayana Patel in the Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Nurse Sejal Parmar (center), 32, weighs and wraps a new born baby after a surrogate went into labor and gave birth unexpectedly in the Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • School girls giggle as they walk home from school in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel (left) looks through a log in the lab at the Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • School girls giggle as they walk home from school in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel performs an embryo transfer on a surrogate in the Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • A client walks around on the Operation Theater floor, as a surrogate looks out the window in the surrogates floor above, at the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Shakku (center), an ex-surrogate, used to work as a hard labourer making daily wages lower than the minimum wage, in construction sites and as a domestic servant, sits amongst other current surrogates in the surrogate's hostel at the Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Patients wait around to see the doctors at the Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • A doctor works on an egg in the lab after an IVF egg retrieval in the Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • A doctor works on an egg in the lab after an IVF egg retrieval in the Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel, performs an IVF egg retrieval on a patient in her Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012. She had done her first successful surrogacy birth in 2003, and has delivered over 565 babies since the clinic's establishment. While 15% of couples are infertile globally, only 6% of infertility cases require surrogacy as a last option. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel, performs an IVF egg retrieval on a patient in her Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012. She had done her first successful surrogacy birth in 2003, and has delivered over 565 babies since the clinic's establishment. While 15% of couples are infertile globally, only 6% of infertility cases require surrogacy as a last option. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates laze around and chat with each other, as they spend the entire pregnancy, in the surrogate's house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates laze around and chat with each other, as they spend the entire pregnancy, in the surrogate's house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dieties and gods from a variety of religions adorn the walls as surrogates laze around and chat with each other, as they spend the entire pregnancy, in the surrogate's house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates laze around and chat with each other, as they spend the entire pregnancy, in the surrogate's house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • A surrogate's child comes to visit as other surrogates laze around and chat with each other, as they spend the entire pregnancy, in the surrogate's house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates laze around and chat with each other, as they spend the entire pregnancy, in the surrogate's house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates in their daily lives, as they spend the entire pregnancy, in the surrogate's house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Other surrogates look on as 2 surrogates get their photos taken after their joint baby shower, organised on the 7th month of pregnancy, in the surrogate's house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates in their daily lives, as they spend the entire pregnancy, in the surrogate's house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Idan, the surrogate who just gave birth to Barbara's baby, plays with the baby in Barbara's hotel room near the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Barbara, from Canada, had come to receive him at his birth from Idan, her surrogate, and is waiting for her husband to come and join her in Anand, while she continues to hire Idan to breastfeed her son. Idan's husband sends pumped breast milk to Barbara's hotel in the evenings when Idan cannot come personally. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Idan, the surrogate who just gave birth to Barbara's baby, comes to breastfeed the baby in Barbara's hotel room near the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Barbara, from Canada, had come to receive him at his birth from Idan, her surrogate, and is waiting for her husband to come and join her in Anand, while she continues to hire Idan to breastfeed her son. Idan's husband sends pumped breast milk to Barbara's hotel in the evenings when Idan cannot come personally. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Idan, the surrogate who just gave birth to Barbara's baby, comes to breastfeed the baby in Barbara's hotel room near the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Barbara, from Canada, had come to receive him at his birth from Idan, her surrogate, and is waiting for her husband to come and join her in Anand, while she continues to hire Idan to breastfeed her son. Idan's husband sends pumped breast milk to Barbara's hotel in the evenings when Idan cannot come personally. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Idan, a surrogate who just gave birth to Barbara's baby, comes to breastfeed the baby in Barbara's hotel room near the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Barbara, from Canada, had come to receive him at his birth from Idan, her surrogate, and is waiting for her husband to come and join her in Anand, while she continues to hire Idan to breastfeed her son. Idan's husband sends pumped breast milk to Barbara's hotel in the evenings when Idan cannot come personally. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Barbara, from Canada, carries her baby after her surrogate, Idan, has breastfed the baby in her hotel room near the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Barbara, from Canada, had come to receive him at his birth from Idan, her surrogate, and is waiting for her husband to come and join her in Anand, while she continues to hire Idan to breastfeed her son so that he gets the best start in life. Idan's husband sends pumped breast milk to Barbara's hotel in the evenings when Idan cannot come personally. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Barbara, from Canada, carries her baby after her surrogate, Idan, has breastfed the baby in her hotel room near the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Barbara, from Canada, had come to receive him at his birth from Idan, her surrogate, and is waiting for her husband to come and join her in Anand, while she continues to hire Idan to breastfeed her son so that he gets the best start in life. Idan's husband sends pumped breast milk to Barbara's hotel in the evenings when Idan cannot come personally. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Idan, who just gave birth to Barbara's baby, comes to breastfeed the baby in her hotel room near the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Barbara, from Canada, had come to receive him at his birth from Idan, her surrogate, and is waiting for her husband to come and join her in Anand, while she continues to hire Idan to breastfeed her son so that he gets the best start in life. Idan's husband sends pumped breast milk to Barbara's hotel in the evenings when Idan cannot come personally. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Barbara's baby yawns in his cot in her hotel room near the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Barbara, from Canada, had come to receive him at his birth from Idan, her surrogate, and is waiting for her husband to come and join her in Anand, while she continues to hire Idan to breastfeed her son so that he gets the best start in life. Idan's husband sends pumped breast milk to Barbara's hotel in the evenings when Idan cannot come personally. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Asian and American surrogacy clients chat outside the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Surrogacy clients come from around the world and find camaraderie amongst other couples facing similar problems. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Nurses go in and out of the treatment room while general gynae patients wait at the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Jayshree Pillai, a 1st time surrogate, poses for a photograph in the surrogates hostel at the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • A group of women walk around on the 1st floor as a surrogate looks out the window while talking on her mobile phone in the surrogates floor of the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • 9 months pregnant, Leela Mekwan (center), 34, waits for a doctor's checkup in preparation for her Caesarian section delivery today in the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • 9 months pregnant, Leela Mekwan (center), 34, waits for a doctor's checkup in preparation for her Caesarian section delivery today in the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates pass their time talking on their mobile phones or watching daily happenings in the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates pass their time chatting with each other in the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Archana (right) makes bread in her house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Archana , an ex-surrogate, continues to work with Dr. Nayana Patel, catering specially prepared tiffin meals to the surrogates and Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy clinic staff. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Archana's father-in-law (left) prepares tiffin containers, as she (right) makes bread in her house with her family in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Archana , an ex-surrogate, continues to work with Dr. Nayana Patel, catering specially prepared tiffin meals to the surrogates and Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy clinic staff. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Archana (right top), an ex-surrogate, looks into her accounts, as she continues to work with Dr. Nayana Patel catering specially prepared tiffin meals to the surrogates and Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy clinic staff, which she prepares in her house with her family in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Archana, an ex-surrogate, cooks bread, as she continues to work with Dr. Nayana Patel, catering specially prepared tiffin meals to the surrogates and Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy clinic staff, which she prepares in her house with her family in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel (left) performs a laproscopy operation, on a patient in the operation theater of Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel (center) performs a laproscopy operation, on a patient in the operation theater of Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel (right) performs a laproscopy operation, on a patient in the operation theater of Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Doctors prepare to move the patient to the recuperation room after performing a hystroscopy, a pin-hole operation, on her in the operation theater of Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel (center) waits for the next operation after performing a hystroscopy, a pin-hole operation, on a patient in the operation theater of Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel (center) performs a hystroscopy, a pin-hole operation, on a patient in the operation theater of Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Manisha, an ex-surrogate, has continued to work with Dr. Patel's Akanksha clinic as a nanny for new-born test tube babies, like these twins in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Apara Nursing Home, where babies from the Akanksha clnic are often sent for neonatal and other post-birth intensive care, in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Manisha, a widow and mother of 3 of her own children, has taken care of over 100 babies for Dr Patel's surrogacy clients, making up to 15000 rupees per month. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Manisha, an ex-surrogate, has continued to work with Dr. Patel's Akanksha clinic as a nanny for new-born test tube babies, like these twins in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Apara Nursing Home, where babies from the Akanksha clnic are often sent for neonatal and other post-birth intensive care, in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Manisha, a widow and mother of 3 of her own children, has taken care of over 100 babies for Dr Patel's surrogacy clients, making up to 15000 rupees per month. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Manisha (right), an ex-surrogate, has continued to work with Dr. Patel's Akanksha clinic as a nanny for new-born test tube babies, like these twins in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Apara Nursing Home, where babies from the Akanksha clnic are often sent for neonatal and other post-birth intensive care, in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Manisha, a widow and mother of 3 of her own children, has taken care of over 100 babies for Dr Patel's surrogacy clients, making up to 15000 rupees per month. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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