Donor programs

NB! Despite the fact that all the forms are thoroughly inspected by doctors, you will be contacted and invited to the Clinic for a check-up only in case of our interest. Communication is one-way in this case. The clinic reserves the right to refuse a donor candidate without explanation.

Conditions for joining the program

Program gives a chance to have babies in families in which husband’s spermatogenesis is completely lost. By law, a single healthy woman of reproductive age can also use donor sperm. In addition, sperm donor can be used by families in which husbands have a high risk of passing on hereditary diseases to their offspring. A young man aged 18-35 years, without bad habits, preferably with children, citizen of the Russian Federation can become a sperm donor in Embrylife Clinic. A contract is concluded between a sperm donor and the Clinic, according to which a sperm donor has to abide a certain way of life and is responsible for consequences of a breach of contractual obligations.

To become a sperm donor, it is necessary to het a special medical examination which takes about2 weeks (maximum 1 month and is carried out in our Center for free. For joining the donor program it is necessary to make an appointment to fill in documents and primary sperm analysis.

Preparation

Before donating sperm you need to refrain for 3-5 days from:

• Sexual intercourse as well as masturbation;
• Various thermal discharges on a body (bath, sauna, hot tub);
• Severe physical and psychological stress;
• Drinking strong alcohol and abuse smoking are not recommended;
• To limit intake of drugs which have an effect on spermatogenesis.

A donor mustn’t donate sperm in case of poor general physical state (e.g., ARVI etc.) during the entire participation in the donor program.

Sperm is obtained by masturbation. The procedure is carried out in a special laboratory which has all the necessary conditions for this. Ejaculate is collected in a sterile labelled container. The container is handed over to an embryologist by a donor personally through a window which joins together the sperm donation room and the laboratory. During the handover a donor must identify himself using passport.

Requirements for donor sperm

• Ejaculate volume is more than 1 ml;
• Sperm concentration in 1 ml of ejaculate is more than 800 million;
• Rate of progressively-mobile forms (A+B) is more than 60%;
• Rate of morphologically normal forms is more than 60%;
• Cryotolerancy (Sperm survival after thawing is more than 50%)

If sperm parameters meet the requirements, donor candidate is invited to an appointment with an urologist-andrologist. Uppon successful interview wit the doctor, he is sent for analysis and material obtainment. Medical examination for sperm donors (according to the order of the Ministry of Health No. 107n) includes:

• Microscopic study of sperm
• Study of material from an urethra: microscopic for gonococcus; molecular biology study for cytomegalovirus; microbiological study for chlamydia, mycoplasma and ureaplasma
• Appointment (examination, consultation) with a urologist
• Antibody test for Treponema pallidum in blood
• Determination of herpes simplex virus antigens in blood
• Determination of antibody class M, G (IgM, IgG) to the human immunodeficiency virus HIV-1 and HIV-2
• Determination of antibody class M, G (IgM, IgG) to antigen of viral hepatitis B
• Determination of antibody class M, G (IgM, IgG) to antigen of viral hepatitis С
• Blood test for blood group, Rh factor
• Appointment (examination, consultation) with a physician
• Psychiatric report ( to bring one with yourself)
• Medical and genetical examination (conclusion form a geneticist)

Only after passing all the necessary analysis and receiving required results you can become a donor.

Due to the fact that such viral disease as AIDS and hepatitis can be transmitted with semen, donor sperm can be used only after the end of a quarantine period. The quarantine period lasts 6 months, that is how much time passes since infection until appearance of infectious markers in blood. It means that 6 months after joining the donor program one must be examined and if only, he is healthy the donor’s sperm can be used for ART procedures. That’s why all the donor sperm is frozen and is stored in a sperm bank this entire period. The clinic reserves the right to refuse a donor candidate without explanation.

Regular donorship and reward

In case if all the test results are satisfactory, a donor candidate becomes a regular sperm donor and donates sperm to the bank for a fee.

Regular donor fee is 3000 rubles per 1 donation

Moreover, 900 rubles are immediately paid to a donor after each donation, the remaining 2100 rubles are paid after getting positive results of the interim examination (no infection etc.) after 6 months

A donor can donate sperm up to 4-6 times per months upon the Clinic invitation.v

Legal aspects

Start of participation in the donor program is the day of signing an agreement with the Clinic and reviewing the program. By concluding an agreement with the Clinic, a sperm donor agrees and undertakes to pass all the necessary examinations in time, comply with the lifestyle requirements given above. The Clinics takes care of payment of all the necessary examinations and donor's reward in accordance with the scheme described above.

For regular donors only anonymous sperm donorship is possible, which means that a donor and a married couple who will use the sperm (recipients) cannot know each other. Donor’s personal data, that specialists of the Clinic have, are the subject of medical secrecy. The possibility of giving them out to recipients or other unauthorized people is completely excluded.

Patients who plan to use donor sperm get just a descriptive portrait of a donor: age, nationality, height, weight, hair color, eye color, facial shape, forehead shape, nose shape, blood type. Starting treatment with the use of donor sperm, patients also sign an agreement in which they agree and undertake rights to support and upbring a unborn child and not to make attempts to identify a donor.

Every donor has a free examination according to standard criteria according to the order of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

• Fluorography (valid for 1 year)
• ECG (valid for 1 year)
• Examination by a therapist and health assessment (once a year)
• Consultation with a geneticist (onсe)
• Consultation with a psychiatrist (onсe)
• Blood test for RW, HIV, HbsAg, hepatitis C (valid for 3 months)
• Blood type and Rh factor identification (once)
• Complete blood count (valid for 1 month)
• Coagulation test (valid for 1 month)
• Biochemical blood test
• Cytogenetic screening (once)
• Urine analysis Анализ мочи (valid for 1 month)
• Flora test swab (valid for 1 month)
• Pap test (valid for 1 year)
• Gynecological examination
• Pelvic organs ultrasound
• Examination of cervical canal material for chlamydia, mycoplasma, ureaplasma, gonorrhea, HSV, CMV (valid for 6 months)

Information about anonymous donor identity is confidential, equally a donor doesn’t get information about patients to whom her eggs are intended. After choosing a specific donor, the latter passes a complete medical and genetic examination during which it is checked whether she meets all the necessary requirements to be an egg donor. A donor signs an information acceptance form which states that her eggs and produced out of them embryos will be the property of patients.

Steps of anonymous egg donation

Option 1. A woman who wants to become an egg donor calls our Clinic number 8 (812) 327–5050 and passes a telephone survey on the subject of compliance with the donor requirements. She also has to answer number of questions on phenotypic characteristics, education, nationality, etc. Donor data are entered into a database and will be offered on choice to couples.

Option 2. Fill in the form

Without cryopreservation

1. If a couple gets interested in donor’s application form, a manager of the Clinic will contact them and invite to the Clinic to join the program.
2. The Donor gets examined at the expense of the Clinic. The donor never meets the couple who chose them.
3. The doctor synchronizes the menstrual cycles of the donor and the recipient with the help of hormones.
4. The donor gets additional ovulation stimulation (to increase number of eggs) with the help of medications, while the doctor prepares the recipient’s endometrium for fertilized egg transfer with estradiol and progesterone medications.
5. The final step: with the help of puncture eggs are extracted from the donor, which are fertilized with prepared in laboratory sperm of the patient’s husband. At this stage donor participation ends.
6. After a few days an embryo (or two) is transferred into the woman’s body (the remaining embryos get frozen).

A married couple who wants to use donor eggs pays full cost of IVF, medication for donor stimulation and the donor egg. The cost of the donor egg includes choosing the donor in accordance with the recipient’s requirements, full examination and financial compensation to the donor.

With cryopreservation

1. If a doctor is interested in donor’s application, a manager of the Clinic will contact her by phone, invite to the Clinic.
2. The donor gets examined at the expense of the Clinic.
3. The donor gets additional ovulation stimulation (to increase the number of eggs) with the help of medications.
4. With the help of puncture eggs are extracted from the donor. At this stage donor participation ends and the donor gets reward.

Oocytes donor reward

Your medical examination is at the expense of the Clinic. The examination takes only 2 visits.

You receive 60 000 rubles if 5 to 25 oocytes (eggs) are punctured.

You receive 120 000 rubles if 55 oocytes (eggs) are punctured.*

You get reward to the indicated account details within 20 working days.

Additional reward! For each oocyte after 25th you receive additional reward of 2000 rubles.

The program lasts 2 weeks (from the beginning of the stimulation to the puncture of oocytes)