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Chapter 31 - Donor Recruitment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2019

By
Jane A. Stewart
Edited by
Jane A. Stewart
Jane A. Stewart
Affiliation:
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Summary

Sperm donation in the United Kingdom was first described as a treatment in 1945 in Mary Barton’s article in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) [1]. Before and since that publication, innumerable children have been born as a result of either formal or informal sperm donation. Sperm freezing has been undertaken in animal work e.g. cattle for many years, and advances in the reliability of freezing and thawing techniques paved the way for the formation of sperm ‘banks’. In the United Kingdom in 1990, the storage of human gametes became a licensable activity through the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act regulated by the Authority (HFEA) [2].

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Subfertility, Reproductive Endocrinology and Assisted Reproduction , pp. 233 - 240
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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