Inability to conceive or produce children even after unprotected sexual cohabitation is called infertility. That is, the inability of a man to produce sufficient numbers or quality of sperm to impregnate a woman or inability of a woman to become pregnant or maintain a pregnancy.

IUT - Intra Uterine Transfer,
(i) Embryo with more than 8 blastomeres is inserted into uterus to complete its further development.
(ii) It is a method to achieve pregnancy by Assisted Reproductive technology.

Cervical cancer is caused by a sexually transmitted virus called Human Papilloma virus (HPV). HPV may cause abnormal growth of cervical cells or cervical dysplasia.

AIDS and Genital Herpes

Syphilis and Gonorrhoea

(i) MTP stands for medical termination of pregnancy
(ii) Medical method of abortion is a voluntary or intentional termination of pregnancy in a non-surgical or non-invasive way.

(i) Tubectomy is the surgical sterilisation method in women.
(ii) Vasectomy is the surgical sterilisation method in male.

IUD - Intra-Uterine Device. They increase of phagocytosis of sperm within the uterus and prevent meeting of gametes there by acting as birth control measure.

Saheli, is a contraceptive pill devised by Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI) in Lucknow, India. It contains a non-steroidal preparation called centchroman.

In these methods, the ovum and sperm are prevented from meeting so that fertilization does not occur.

An ideal contraceptive should be user friendly easily available, with least side effects and should not interfere with sexual drive.

The voluntary use of contraceptive procedures to prevent fertilization or prevent implantation of a fertilized egg in the uterus is termed as birth control.

Government of India has taken various steps like PCPNDT Act (Preconception and Prenatal diagnostic technique act-1994) enacted to ban the identification of sex and to prevent the use of prenatal diagnostic techniques for selective abortion.

IVF is used to treat women with blocked, damaged or absent fallopian tubes.