Following an HFEA report that a small number of donors produced over 70 eggs in a single cycle of treatment, there have been a number of concerned articles in the news suggesting that egg donors are at particular risk of ovarian hyperstimulation. Is this true and what could be done to avoid it? Ovarian Hyperstimulation …
Monthly Archive: October 2011
Oct
31
Oct
24
Expenses for donors – payment or compensation?
The HFEA has now announced the results of its review on payment and expenses for egg and sperm donors. Both egg and sperm donors will receive a fixed sum of money: sperm donors will receive £35 per visit and egg donors, a sum of £750 per cycle of donation. The fees are intended to cover …
Oct
17
Altruism and money
A report on the ethics of donation from the Nuffield Council for Bioethics has recommended that donors should be fully reimbursed for loss of earnings. Currently there is a cap on the sum that can be claimed back for expenses which includes childcare costs, travel and loss of earnings. This has meant that some donors …
Oct
13
Talk to the media!
Journalists often contact the Trust to speak to donors and recipients about their story. They range from parenting magazines to mainstream newspapers and TV. We put these up on our website on our Media requests page. Requests come in weekly and at any one time there are usually several journalists looking for stories, with contact …
Oct
10
The land of the free?
The US is known for paying donors, and this is usually given as the main reason US fertility clinics have no shortage. But with both donors and recipients looking for a different experience of creating and raising a child, free sperm donation is growing in popularity. Some couples cannot afford the cost of fertility treatment …
Oct
03
‘A kind of donor godfather’: donor recruitment and the London Sperm Bank
Many said in 2005 that removing donor anonymity would mean donor numbers would drop and the only way to prevent this was payment. Six years on, one London clinic is proving that isn’t true. In March 2010 the London Sperm Bank launched a new sperm donor recruitment campaign which took a different approach. They decided …