There are always plenty of media stories about the shortage of sperm donors in the UK, long waiting lists if you need to use donor sperm and the ‘falling’ numbers of sperm donors since anonymity was removed. However, HFEA figures have shown that the removal of anonymity hasn’t actually reduced the number of donors coming forward, and here at Manchester Fertility Services – unlike other sperm banks – we don’t have any waiting lists for donor...
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Why are we so successful in attracting sperm donors?
Monday, July 18th, 2011Lack of UK sperm and egg donors ‘driving couples abroad’
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011New research has shown that many couples are having to seek fertility treatment abroad because of a lack of sperm and egg donors in the UK. The new study, published in the journal Human Reproduction, revealed the major reasons for seeking fertility treatment abroad were a lack of donors in the UK, long waiting times for NHS treatment, high costs and a ‘postcode lottery’ for NHS...
Read More »Egg donor plea – one woman’s story
Thursday, May 12th, 2011It often takes a personal story to make more people think about donating sperm or eggs, and recently a Stockport woman made hers public in an effort to raise awareness of the lack of egg donors. 37-year-old Sarah Johnson suffers from a rare medical condition, Turner Mosaic Syndrome, which meant she went through the menopause at just 12 years of...
Read More »Soldier launches campaign to protect fertility of troops
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011A soldier left unable to have children after being injured in Afghanistan has launched a campaign to urge fellow comrades to preserve their sperm before frontline deployment.
Sergeant Rick Clements says soldiers should be given free treatment to freeze sperm and warned about the risks they face where their fertility is concerned. Currently, the MoD provides fertility preservation information to soldiers on...
What being a sperm donor really means
Monday, April 11th, 2011There was a wonderful article in the Guardian newspaper recently about sperm donation. The newspaper has a regular column called ‘A Letter To…’ where people can write a heartfelt message to someone and say all the things they’ve always wanted...
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