How Successful Is Sperm Donation?

Fertility Treatments Using Sperm Donation

How Successful Is Sperm Donation?

Fertility Treatments Using Sperm Donation

Sperm donation, with its decades-long solution for male infertility, paved the way for the concept of genetic material’ use by a third party to conceive a child for a genetically unrelated Intended Parent to be more effective and easier to accept.

There Is No Male Infertility!

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Concern About Sperm Donation

In most cases, IVF clinics in Ukraine use sperm, donated from their own local sperm donors. One concern with donated sperm is that a man may donate his sperm too many times, which may lead to unknown sexually intimate relationships or marriage between the potential biological siblings. There are no national or international registries that track how many times a man donated his sperm or how many children were conceived.

Indications for Sperm Donation

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Sperm Donor Anonymity

Sperm donation rules in Ukraine usually define rights and obligations of sperm donor/sperm recipient, screening and anonymity of sperm donor. Reimbursement or the number of offspring allowed per sperm donor is not regulated. Anonymous sperm donation is a common practice in Ukraine. Thus, for a female infertile patient, the sperm donor must be anonymous (except for relatives or non-anonymous sperm donors).

Sperm Donation Regulations in Ukraine

Sperm donation regulations in Ukraine are described in paragraphs 5.11-5.20 of the Order of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine No. 787 “On Approval of the Procedure of Assisted Reproductive Technologies Application” adopted on September 9, 2013, summarized as follows:

  • Sperm donor can be a man aged 20 to 40 years with a healthy born child,
  • Sperm donors should not have negative phenotypic manifestations,
  • Sperm donation is allowed in the absence of somatic and hereditary diseases that can negatively affect the health of the unborn child, deviations from normal morphometric and phenotypic characteristics, as well as other contraindications,
  • Sperm donation is not allowed when using narcotics, psychotropic and toxic substances, alcohol abuse,
  • For a sperm donor, a personal sperm donor card is filled in,
  • The data on the use of donor sperm is recorded in the register,
  • Fertility doctor conducts a medical examination of a sperm donor, and also controls the results of laboratory tests in accordance with the examination schedule; requirements for donor sperm: normozoospermia,
  • The choice of a sperm donor is made by the spouses or the infertile patient voluntarily, based on the phenotypic characteristics of the anonymous donor.