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Title: | Artificial insemination with donor sperm (AID): heterogeneity in sperm banking facilities in a single country (Belgium) | Authors: | THIJSSEN, Annelies Dhont, Nathalie Vandormael, Eva Cox, Annemie Klerkx, Elke Creemers, Eva OMBELET, Willem |
Issue Date: | 2014 | Source: | Facts, views & vision in ObGyn, 6 (2), p. 57-67 | Abstract: | Due to the high inflow of foreign patients seeking cross-border reproductive care in Belgium and the increased number of lesbian couples and single women who call for artificial insemination with donor sperm (AID), Belgian sperm banks nowadays face a shortage in donor sperm. However, since there is no central registration system for sperm donors in Belgium, no figures are currently available supporting this statement. Therefore a study was performed to obtain a detailed overview of the sperm banking facilities in Belgium. Questionnaires were sent to all Belgian centres for assisted reproduction with laboratory facilities (n = 18) to report on their sperm banking methods. The results showed that 82% of the centres rely partially or completely on foreign donor sperm. Moreover, four of the thirteen centres that have their own sperm bank use imported donor sperm in > 95% AID cycles. Our results show that in 63% of the Belgian AID cycles imported Danish donor sperm is being used. Donor recruitment is mainly performed through the centre’s website (61%) or by distributing flyers in the centre (46%) and 9 to 180 potential donors have been recruited per centre in 2013. Eventually, 15 to 50% of these candidate donors were accepted. Different criteria for donor acceptance are handled by the centres: donor age limits range from 18-25 to 36-46 years old, and thresholds for sperm normality differ considerably. We can conclude that a wide variation in methods associated with sperm banking is observed in Belgian centres. | Notes: | Correspondence at: annelies.thijssen@uhasselt.be | Keywords: | artificial insemination; donor sperm; Belgium; questionnaire; sperm banking | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/18652 | ISSN: | 2032-0418 | e-ISSN: | 2032-0418 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | vabb 2017 |
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