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Sperm Donation
The sperm donated by a fertile man who is not the recipient’s partner. Currently, therapeutic donor insemination (DI or TDI) is one option when the male partner has severe abnormalities in the semen parameters.
Latest News and Research
- ASRM Announces Taskforce on the Interests of Donor Conceived People
- SART and ASRM Issue Advice for Infertility Patients Concerning the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
- FDA Message on Coronavirus
- ASRM Taskforce on the Needs and Interests of Donor Conceived People and their Families
- Canadian Class Action Lawsuit for Fertility Fraud Against MD Settled for $13.375m
- Update #1 Released to the ASRM Patient Management and Clinical Recommendations During The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic
Patient Resources
- Gamete and embryo donation deciding whether to tell 配子和胚胎捐赠：应否告知子女的决定
- Inseminación intrauterina (IUI) (Intrauterine Insemination [IUI])
- Gamete and Embryo Donation: Deciding Whether To Tell
- Third-party Reproduction: Sperm, Egg, and Embryo Donation and Surrogacy
- Counseling issues to discuss with gay men and lesbians seeking ART 与寻求辅助生殖技术（ART）的同性恋者讨论的咨询问题
- Donación de gametos y óvulos: decidir si o no contar (Gamete and embryo donation: Deciding whether to tell)
- Reproducción con donante (Third-party reproduction booklet)
- Temas de asesoramiento para personas homosexuales que buscan tecnologías de reproducción asistida (Counseling issues for gay men and lesbians undergoing ART)
- Avoiding Conflict in Third-party Reproduction
- Gamete (Eggs And Sperm) And Embryo Donation
- What Is A Gestational Carrier & Who Needs One?
- Delaware
Publications
- Updated terminology for gamete and embryo donors: directed (identified) to replace ‘‘known’’ and nonidentified to replace ‘‘anonymous’’: a committee opinion (2022)
- Informing offspring of their conception by gamete or embryo donation: an Ethics Committee opinion (2018)
- Interests obligations and rights in gamete and embryo donation: an Ethics Committee opinion (2019)
- Misconduct in third-party assisted reproduction: an Ethics Committee opinion (2018)
- Using family members as gamete donors or gestational carriers (2017)
- Diagnosis and treatment of infertility in men: AUA/ASRM Guideline (2020)
- Guidance regarding gamete and embryo donation (2021)
- Micro-presentation: Interests, Obligations, and Rights in Gamete and Embryo Donation
- Micro-presentation: Misconduct in third party assisted reproduction
- Micro-presentation: The Management of Obstructive Azoospermia
- Micro-presentation: Management of Nonobstructive Azoospermia
