Imagine if Sophie Raworth or Victoria Derbyshire announced they were taking a break from work to become an egg donor – that would really get people talking, and thinking, about donation. That’s what happened in Washington (USA) recently when news channel KCBD announced that their presenter, Christy Moreland, would be ‘out of the office’ temporarily …
Monthly Archive: May 2011
May
30
May
23
Improving donor care
We talk to a lot of donors, and although we have anecdotal evidence on what would make things better, usually hard facts are what really make changes happen. The NGDT has just begun a nationwide donor satisfaction survey. This asks donors about what their experience of the clinic and counselling was like, as well as …
May
16
Meet an NGDT trustee
The NGDT trustees will be attending screenings of the documentary Donor Unknown, showing across the country in June, and participating in the after-screening discussion. Donor Unknown, ‘Adventures in the sperm trade’, follows the search of a 20 year-old Pennsylvanian woman called JoEllen who wants to trace her sperm donor. She eventually finds him and 12 …
May
09
Help for heroes
When you think of the kind of people who need donated sperm to have a child, do soldiers returning from war come to mind? Like all soldiers on active service, Sergeant Rick Clements was briefed by the army about the possibility of losing limbs in Afghanistan. The possibility of losing his fertility was never raised. …
May
02
Greener fertility treatment: cut down on ‘egg miles’
The Daily Mail this week shared news that some UK fertility clinics began <a href=”http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1377652/Childless-British-couples-turn-eggs-imported-America-amid-donor-shortage.html”>trials for importing eggs from the US</a>, to help UK recipients have children. Using donors from the US adds complication to an already complex process. First, there’s the issue of ‘egg miles’. Eggs would need to be frozen due to the …