DONATE LIFE

REASONS TO BECOME FEMALE DONOR

Every day infertility becomes a reverberating theme. We daily read or hear about problems of couples who cannot conceive a child. There are more and more women whose ova do not allow them to become pregnant be it due to the insufficient quality of the ova, genetic predisposition or as a result of oncologic treatment.

Their only hope to have complete family is the reproductive medicine which works with anonymously donated ovum. Also YOU can help. And donate life.

You would enable other woman to live the beautiful emotions associated with motherhood and make her dream about a baby come true. You may be a suitable donor! If you are 18 to 33, you have a complete secondary school education and wish to find out more, contact us at free infoline +421 903 992 626, info@darujtezivot.sk or fill in our online donors form. We will contact you back.

Ova donation is strictly anonymous both the donors and the receivers, our clinic fully reimburses donors’ costs associated with the donation  (travel expenses, accommodation, meals, proven additional costs, time spent at the clinic, discomfort) up to 800€.

CRITERIA TO BE REGISTERED IN A DATABASE:

• age 18 – 33 years
• complete secondary education
• good health condition
• there cannot be any genetic predispositions or psychiatric diseases in the family medical history

Steps to become donor of ova:

1. Fill in the online donors form or contact us via email at info@darujtezivot.sk, give us a phone call  +421 903 992 626 to agree on the date of your first appointment.
2. If you have decided to fill in the online form, our IVF Clinic Coordinator will contact you, explain further procedure and agree on the date of your first appointment at the clinic with you.
3. You will have a discussion with a gynaecologist and geneticist at the agreed time. A blood sample will be taken for hormonal, genetic testing and the test of sexually transmitted diseases.
4. You may be registered in the donors programme based on the results of the above-mentioned tests.
5. Subsequently, we will plan a stimulation cycle, the gynaecologist will prepare your protocol and explain the whole procedure. She/he will also teach how you should apply the stimulating preparation.
6. You will self-administer the stimulating preparations for 10 days. You will undergo an ultrasound check-up during the stimulation, based on this check-up the gynaecologist defines the exact time and date to collect ova.
7. The collection of ova is done in short general anaesthesia. You can leave the clinic 2 hours after the collection finishes.

YOUR BENEFITS

• information about your health condition
• facts about your fertility
• results of test of sexually transmitted diseases
• results of genetic tests
• especially the hope given to childless couples

We will reimburse the donors all costs associated with the donation. The whole process is absolutely anonymous, personal costs are reimbursed up to 800€.

Donate life and contribute to the happiness of couples longing for it.

REASONS TO BECOME A MALE DONOR

15 – 20% of couples in Slovakia face the problems with sterility. In 30% of the couples, the reason of infertility is with the man only. Some of them have the opportunity to become a parent, if their partner’s ova are fertilized with donated sperm.

Donated sperm is used in all standard methods of assisted reproduction, if male partner’s sperm cannot be used. The donation of sperm is mutually anonymous – both for male donors and the receivers.

CRITERIA TO BE REGISTERED IN A DATABASE:

• age 18 – 35 years
• at least complete secondary education
• good health condition
• high parameters of spermogram
• negative results of tests of sexually transmitted diseases – AIDS (HIV), Hepatitis B, C, syphilis, HTLV, chlamydia
• there cannot be any genetic predispositions to diseases
• normal karyotype (chromosomes examination)

Steps to become donor of SPERM:

1. Fill in the online donors form or give us a phone call  +421 903 992 626 or +4212/209 216 99, to agree upon the date of your first appointment.
2. If your filled in the online form, an embryologist or IVF Clinic Coordinator will contact you within 24 hours.
3. You will have the first consultation at the agreed time and hand over sperm in the sperm collection room, the ejaculate will be then analysed.
4. If the result of spermogram meets the required criteria, we will draw your blood to test it for sexually transmitted diseases and you will undergo a genetic examination.
5. If the results of all tests are negative, you will be registered in a donation programme.
6. You will attend several blood draws within the following 2 – 3 weeks.
7. All samples will be in 180 days lasting quarantine after the last blood draw is complete. During this period of time, the samples cannot be used. After 180 days period lapses, the embryologist from our clinic will contact you to attend a follow-up blood draw to test sexually transmitted diseases. If the results of these tests are again negative, your sperm will be released from quarantine and used to treat our patients.

A suitable donor will attend 5-10 blood draws, our clinic fully reimburses donors’ costs associated with the donation (travel expenses, accommodation, meals, proven additional costs, time spent at the clinic, discomfort) up to 600€.