Family Planning and Fertility

Follow the links below to find Information on family planning, contraception, reproductive technologies, and fertility and infertility. For a range of information on these issues, you can also visit the following HealthInsite information partner sites:

Andrology Australia: quality information on male reproductive health [Andrology Australia]

The Jean Hailes Foundation [The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health]

Women's Health Queensland Wide [Women's Health Queensland Wide Inc

Women's Health Victoria [Women's Health Victoria (WHV)]
Reviewed January 2012



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Title:   Sexual reproduction - how babies are made
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   From puberty, if a male and a female have sexual intercourse (often called 'making love'), it is possible that the girl could get pregnant, ie. a baby could start to grow.
Date:   Jan 2012
Title:   Reproduction in men
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Sperm production occurs in the testicles. It takes around 70 days and requires a temperature 3° C lower than the body, which is why the testicles are housed in the scrotum. The only function of the male sex cell – the sperm – is to fertilise a female egg. This transmits the genetic material from the male to the next generation.
Date:   Nov 2011
Title:   Getting pregnant
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   An egg survives no more than 24 hours after ovulation; unless, of course, it is fertilised by a sperm. However, sperm can survive for longer within the genital tract (your vagina, uterus or fallopian tubes).
Date:   Oct 2011
Title:   Safer Fertility Drug for Women Leads to Same Live Birth Rate
Publisher:   HealthInsite Editorial Team
Description:   With new information available, authors of a Cochrane Systematic Review have revised their conclusions about the relative effectiveness of two different treatments used to help women become pregnant. They now conclude that giving women gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonists leads to similar live-birth rates compared with GnRH agonists. Previously they had concluded that women who used antagonists tended to have lower birth-rates than those using agonists.
Date:   May 2011
Title:   Sexual Development
Publisher:   HealthInsite Topic Page
Description:   Links to information on sexual development, including development during childhood, puberty, menstruation, menopause and sex in later life.
Date:   Apr 2011
Title:   Stem cells, cloning and related issues
Publisher:   National Health and Medical Research Council
Description:   A primer on stem cells, the regulation of human embryo research and the prohibition of human cloning in Australia.
Date:   Mar 2011
Title:   Assisted reproductive technology in Australia and New Zealand 2008
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)
Description:   Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) — such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF) — are a group of procedures used to assist women to become pregnant. ART usually involves removing oocytes (eggs) from a womans ovaries, fertilising them in the laboratory and then transferring the resulting embryo(s) back into a womans uterus. Over the last five years, the number of ART procedures has increased by over 10% per year on average in Australia and New Zealand. ART children now account for an estimated 3.3% and 2.0% of children born in Australia and New Zealand respectively.
Date:   Sep 2010
Title:   Sexual and Reproductive Health Quizzes
Publisher:   HealthInsite Topic Page
Description:   Links to quizzes about sexual and reproductive health, including female and male genital diseases and sexually transmitted diseases.
Date:   Aug 2010
Title:   Licensing and Compliance
Publisher:   National Health and Medical Research Council
Description:   This section of the site contains a comprehensive range of topics relevant to the NHMRC overseeing the use of excess ART embryos in Australia.
Date:   Jun 2010
Title:   Andrology Australia Forum 2010
Publisher:   HealthInsite Editorial Team
Description:   The Andrology Australia Forum 2010, takes place in just a week, and will discuss the implications of the first National Male Health Policy.
Date:   May 2010
Title:   Donor conception - telling your child
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   The use of science and medicine to help make a baby, called reproductive technology, may be the only way some people can have a child. When and how your child is told or finds out are most important.
Date:   May 2010
Title:   Animation: fertilisation of egg by sperm - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   View this animation of what happens to the sperm and the egg during fertilisation.
Date:   Apr 2010
Title:   Delayed ejaculation
Publisher:   Andrology Australia
Description:   Delayed ejaculation and anorgasmia are used to describe the inability to ejaculate at will, so that ejaculation takes much longer than desired, or does not happen at all.
Date:   Feb 2010
Title:   Parenting after IVF treatment
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   Personal accounts of conceiving with IVF treatment, with an overview of the challenges of IVF and common concerns of IVF parents.
Date:   Nov 2009
Title:   Policy and guidance
Publisher:   National Health and Medical Research Council
Description:   The NHMRC is Australia's leading expert body promoting the development and maintenance of public and individual health standards.
Date:   Oct 2009
Title:   Varicocele - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   A varicocele is a collection of widened veins that occurs on the outside of the testicle. A varicocele usually affects only the left testicle.
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   Women and sexual and reproductive health
Publisher:   Women's Health Victoria (WHV)
Description:   Discusses a range of sexual and reproductive health issues for women including: safe sex and contraception, unplanned pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, and sexual violence and abuse. Demonstrates the requirement for gender-specific sexual and reproductive health education, health promotion and prevention strategies.
Date:   Apr 2009
Title:   In vitro fertilisation (IVF) solutions
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Summarises requirements for IVF solutions to demonstrate compliance with the Essential Principles for safety and performance of medical devices, or the Australian Medical Device Requirements (DR4, for devices containing material of human origin)
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART)
Publisher:   National Health and Medical Research Council
Description:   Assisted Reproductive Technology is the application of laboratory or clinical technology to gametes and/or embryos for the purposes of reproduction. All reproductive medicine units offering ART services should comply with the Ethical Guidelines in use of assisted reproductive technology in clinical practice and research.
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   Male body
Publisher:   Andrology Australia
Description:   A man's fertility and sexual characteristics depend on the normal functioning of the male reproductive system.
Date:   Nov 2007

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