Infertility is a medical condition, which is characterized by the incapability of a person or a couple to reproduce. Though a number of people find this abnormality as an advantage, the majority of patients still pursue a wide spectrum of techniques, treatment options, assisted reproduction techniques and infertility drugs and medications only for the purpose of producing pregnancy.

Infertility medications are by large vital parts of any treatments used in infertility. In fact, even alternative medicine that employs relatively different methods in treating infertility encourage the use of some herbal products for which many may be considered as forms of medications. More >>>

When both partners are presumed to be fertile, artificial insemination (AI) can be attempted with sperm from the male partner (AIH - husband) if there is an anatomic defect in either partner that prevents the sperm from being deposited near the cervix. These defects include hyposadias (abnormal position of the urethral opening) in the man and an abnormal position of the cervix in the woman.

Artificial insemination also may be necessary in certain types of sexual dysfunction. If the male partner is not fertile but the woman is presumed to be, artificial insemination is attempted using sperm from a donor (AID), usually anonymous. The donor, generally matched to the partner in coloring and body build, is found by the woman's physician, either personally or through a sperm bank. The semen from a nonpartner must be screened for a variety of sexually transmissible diseases, including HIV infection, gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes, hepatitis B and chlamydia.
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