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Egg donation - for donors

Useful links

It's difficult to find information on the web which is truly aimed at potential donors and which you can be certain comes from an unbiased source (ie from a clinic which doesn't get paid for finding donors). If you would like to add to this list of resources, please contact me at krissf@hotmail.com.

Medical information

• Leeds Reproductive Medicine Unit
• Oxford Fertility Unit - a non-profit research unit. Contains excellent medical links and some great pictures and video
• Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)
• Nurture - in Nottingham
• Information booklet for Egg Donors - excellent guide from the Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Bristol
• European Infertility Network (EIN) list of British clinics
• Ferti-Net - worldwide fertility centre
• What to expect when you go through a donor IVF cycle - US information
• So you wanna donate an egg? - US information, clear and helpful and donor-focused
• Glossary of infertility terms

Information about drugs

• RxList - Menotropins
• RxList - Leuprolide
• Ovarian stimulants (The South African Medicines Formulary)
• GnRH agonists (The South African Medicines Formulary)
• Drug Database - find out more. Note that some of the drugs used in the donation process are also used for other purposes eg in controlling prostate cancer or endometriosis, and some of the information is only directed at these patients. Note also that regulations and approved drugs are different in the US and the UK.

Support Groups

UK Egg donors and recipients list, hosted by Smartgroups. Registration needed.

Egg Donation listserv, based at TASC, mostly North American - been around for ages and has lots of members

National Gamete Donation Trust (replaces NEEDS) - a UK charity set up to help promote egg and sperm donation.

Surrogate Mothers Online

Surrogacy UK - support and information about surrogacy

Eiceldonatie - Egg donor pages in Dutch for donors based in the Netherlands

Finding recipients

The Logan Institute Based in London, this is an organisation which will put donors and recipients in contact. It's been set up to focus on egg donation and to help prospective parents with specific difficulties in getting treatment elsewhere.

Ethics

• What every woman should know - questions to think about before becoming a donor
• Talking point - the right to know your biological background? - BBC July 1999
• Human Genetics Commission
• Family building through egg donation - available for order from Amazon.co.uk
• Payment for Donors - an article from the British Fertility Society about the HFEA's proposal to withdraw standard payments for sperm donors
• Medical Ethics and the new reproductive technologies - an article from Perspective Press
• Three Christian views on assisted conception and marriage
• Reasons for choosing anonymous or non-anonymous donors (IHR)
• Misrepresentation and misinformation about egg donation on the internet - from Canada
• Choosing embryo adoption - from Perspective Press

PROGRESS Educational Trust

News items and articles

• Ova-compensating? (groan!) - an article from the Washington Post about donor compensation and suitability
• Call to trace sperm donor parents - BBC News, November 1998
• The price of eggs in America - an article about payment giving descriptions of different women's experiences
• Daily 49er: article from an American student newspaper about the risks egg donors face