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British Fertility Society releases new guidelines for sperm, egg and embryo donation |
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by
Ben Jones ,
IVF.Net |
2009-01-12
The British Fertility Society (BFS) has announced a substantial reworking of guidelines for the donation of gametes and embryos for assisted reproduction so as to increase safety for recipients of donated reproductive material. The guidelines, which replace the BFS's 2000 guidelines for egg and embryo donations and also the 1999 British Andrology Society guidelines for sperm donation, rationalise existing safety controls and add new requirements to test for conditions such as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies and the human T cell lymphotropic viruses 1 and 2.
The report, published in the journal 'Human Fertility', is the product of a working group made up of members from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the Association of Biomedical Andrologists, the Association of Clinical Embryologists, the British Andrology Society and the BFS. The stated aims of the project were to provide guidelines to protect both those receiving donor materials and those who will be conceived from those materials.
The requirements of the revised guidelines include screening donated materials for all diseases transmitted via bodily fluids (covering HIV, hepatitis B and C and human T cell lymphotrophic viruses that have been implicated as a cancer risk factor). Secondly, the guidelines require an assessment of the risk that the donor is carrying genetically transmitted diseases such as haemophilia, Huntingdon's disease and congenital heart malformation by means of taking a family medical history. Thirdly, they exclude
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