INFORMATION FOR SPERM DONORS

Donor sperm is used by a couple where the male has an untreatable form of infertility.

Although most donor sperm is used for heterosexual couples, donor sperm may also be used for the insemination of single women. Before the semen of any donor is used to treat a single woman, the donor must have given consent for this usage of his semen.

Non-Identifying data is made available to all requests. Policy and Legislation can change in the future and this may allow identifying information being available to children of donors.

Blood Tests for HIV, Hepatitis B & C, blood group and venereal disease screening will usually be required if you decide to be a sperm donor, and this will be normally performed at the initial consultation.

After you have had your initial consultation, you will be required to see a doctor where further medical history will be taken.

An appointment may also be made for you with a Counsellor.

You may then be booked for your first donation. This will be at a date after confirmation of your Blood Screening Tests (approximately 10 days after blood collection).

Only 50% of men wishing to be sperm donors are accepted.

All sperm samples are then frozen and stored in quarantine. Further blood test will ten be carried out to confirm that the tests performed on commencement, are still negative. Upon confirmation of this your samples can be released from quarantine into the sperm bank.