Various specialised techniques, legal and ethical requirements regarding Assisted Reproductive Techniques (ART) were highlighted at a workshop conducted by the city-based Genome Foundation.
The workshop was meant to create awareness among clinicians in and around Nalgonda, underscoring the significance of genetic testing and screening for rare diseases in families desiring to have children through ART. Couples in need of such techniques are not infertile but have a family history of a certain condition and wish to reduce the risk of having another child with significant health issues or early death.
Genome Foundation consultant gynaecologist and founder of Prasad Research Foundation (Nacharam) Suma Prasad talked about in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) as ART forms in which eggs are fertilised with sperm outside the body. IVF is used for female infertility and unexplained infertility, and ICSI is used for a male cause of infertility.
