This document discusses assisted reproduction and infertility. It defines assisted reproduction as treatments that involve handling eggs, sperm, or embryos to establish a pregnancy. Infertility is defined as the inability to conceive after 1 year of unprotected intercourse. The main causes of infertility are discussed for both females and males. The document also outlines several technologies and medical procedures that can help with infertility, including in vitro fertilisation (IVF), artificial insemination (IUI), zygote/gamete intrafallopian transfer (ZIFT/GIFT), and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). It provides brief descriptions of IVF and ICSI procedures. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis is also mentioned as a technique to test