FertAid or Fertility Aid is a private web site established in 1999 to provide new and productive services to all members of the Fertility and Reproductive Science disciplines. The heart of FertAid is the use of data systems to deliver functional utilities.

The first service to be available was a search site (it was a bit premature to call it a search engine) for companies to list their contact and product range. The most important area was released in 2002. FertAid has developed a complex site for the management of internal quality control and external quality assurance systems for andrology and embryology. These pages fall under the title of QAP-online.

More recently, online survey and online continuing education schemes are under development. Online training manuals are on the drawing boards and should be available next year.

It may be apparent that these areas are part of the infrastructural support and infomation that clincal systems should or may need to provide high quality IVF treatment. In many countries, such systems are required by law, but regardless, should be used by clinics world wide.

As a senior scientist invovled in IVF since 1982, I found the Internet to be a powerful medium to create and develop such systems. The site wishes to bridge worker in all countries and societies and all are welcome. FertAid is intended for use by all who are associated with Clinical IVF, pathology scientists, animal husbandry and research workers in all areas of the reproductive sciences. There will be parts of the site where pateints or other browsers may find useful.

If you have a web site that you would like to add to the the Fertaid directory, you are a company who supplies clinics or research laboratories, you run an IVF clinic and wish to promote your services, you wish to advertise a job or society, I have created separate folders within the search engine for you to do this.

If there is an area of your work environment with which FertAid may help, please feel free to contact us.

I would like to welcome you to FertAid.com and trust you find one or more

Dr James Stanger PhD.

Director, FertAid Pt Ltd.

FertAid may be contacted at

PO Box 244 The Junction Newcastle NSW 2291 Australia

Telephone 61-2-49-63-1226

Fax 61-2-49-63-1228

aMail office@fertaid.com

ABN:093-199-529

FertAid Search Facilities.

While other generic search engines such as Goggle,etc. provide a far reaching and almost incomprehensible variety of responses to a search request, FertAid set out to do it differently.

Together with others interested in web development, FertAid set up critical search paths in several areas to assist anyone to find web sites or specific web pages on selected topics. Information has been added to the FertAid database under several categories. The results of a search provide a link to other web sites.

How is Information Stored.

All information is stored under 2 headings.

Name Heading. A search on this data set is on the name of the Resource (Company or clinic name, Society, Resource type, Consultant, etc) and where appropriate by country, region or world wide.

Specific Heading. Company product information, clinical procedure information, society or consultant services or resource primary information is stored under this heading. Data is stored in 4 separate areas

• Product, procedure or service primary Information (e.g. name of product, type of service, etc.)
• Short description (200 characters) in a free form text.
• Web (or e-mail) link to the Company, Clinics web site or to the appropriate page on their web site
• Larger free form text
• Allocation to a preexisting category definition

A browser can search on Name, Primary Information, Short Description text or category and where appropriate by country or region.

List your Company Contact and Product Range.

For a nominal annual fee, you may list your company contact details including E-mail and web address together with any product you wish to include. You can add or edit these details yourself online via FertAid's password protected logon facility. You are notified of any browser inquiries by E-mail or web access by e-mail. Other facilities include identification of NEW products and a broadcast message facility about your companies activities.

List your IVF Clinic and Procedures.

For a nominal annual fee, you may list your clinics contact details including E-mail and web address together with any procedures you wish to include. You can add or edit these details yourself online via FertAid's password protected logon facility. You are notified of any browser inquiries by E-mail or web access by e-mail. Other facilities include identification of NEW procedures and a broadcast message facility about your clinics activities.

Not only may a clinic list their contact details and services, individual Fertility Specialists and Infertility Counsellors may do so also. The aim of this is to allow patients to know what clinics, specialists or counsellor exist NOT to provide any clinical service over the Internet.

List your Professional Society or Patient Support Group. - Free Service

For NO fee, you may list your professional society or support group including E-mail and web address together with any promotional aspect of your society you wish to include. You can add or edit these details yourself online via FertAid's password protected logon facility. You are notified of any browser inquiries by E-mail or web access by e-mail. Other facilities include the capacity to promote your clinics activities via the society noticeboard message facility.

QAP-online.

This is a new initiative of FertAid. It is designed to provide education and professional development to clinical, scientific and other staff. Using the Internet, images and structured questions and responses, QAP-online allows an international approach to QAP. Participating is by subscription and will produce an instant response to your assessments. It is proposed to provide a response from within your own clinics, other actively involved professionals or all subscribers. Embryology and Andrology are the first two areas to be available.

Others Services.

In addition to the above, FertAids Search facilitates provides 2 resource search options linking keywords to selected pages on other web sites both professional and educational are some of the free facilities available to browsers. You may add a link to any other web page associated with Infertility or Reproductive Sciences .Other facilities include a page for Fertility Laboratory Consultants to list their services