[ Browse by Service Category : Human Reproduction : Sub-Topics of Family Planning (2) ]
Birth Control
Programs that provide permanent or temporary measures by which an individual can prevent conception.
Infertility Services
Programs that provide diagnostic and treatment services for people who have been unable to have children. A wide variety of procedures are available including the use of hormones or medication (fertility drugs) to stimulate egg/sperm production, assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization which involve retrieval of eggs and enhancement of eggs and/or sperm outside the body, embryo transfer (following in vitro fertilization or embryo donation), microsurgical procedures to improve the likelihood of embryo implantation in the uterus and embryo development, artificial insemination using the male partner's sperm or donor sperm, embryo donation, embryo/sperm cryopreservation and embryo adoption.
The above terms and definitions are part of the Taxonomy of Human Services, used here by permission of INFO LINE of Los Angeles.
