Infertility is considered as a social stigma in our country and has been incorporated in reproductive and child health programme. Research areas emphasised are (a) A database; (b) Management in primary, secondary and tertiary levels of health care services; (c) Training of doctors and health care workers; (d) Costing. Infertility is to be priortised as an important public health problem as it affects human being's mental, social, physical and reproductive health.