Canadian Sperm Donors
By Anonymous - Posted on February 25th, 2010
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Can you please tell me if you ship to Halifax Nova Scotia and what kind of screening processes your donors go through. If you do ship to Canada and the screening processes are up to the standards of the clinic that I have to deal with can you tell me how much information is offered when serching, ie pictues , adult or baby photos? medical, physical decriptions.?
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As to the first question, SpermCenter is not a sperm bank; we just collect listings from 20 of the top sperm banks in the US and put them all together for you to access rather than making you go to all the different banks' websites.
That said, each bank's screening process is different. The FDA requires extensive disease screening on all sperm donors for occurences like HIV, gonnorhea, herpes simplex and more. Genetic testing is left up to each individual sperm bank, so this varies.
Banks also vary in the amount and cost of donor information provided. Many sperm donors have baby pictures, some have adult photos, some have audio, long profiles, facial features reports...it depends which sperm bank you choose.
Most of the larger sperm banks will ship your sperm donor's semen to Canada, but it can be a process tha takes anywhere from 1-3 months.
Because Canada requires some tests that aren't required in America, sperm banks who don't have Canadian-compliant sperm donors (meaning the donors have met all Canada's screening requirements) have to be approved by the health ministry.
This doesn't mean you should feel restricted as to which donor you choose, but you will want to make sure the health ministry will make an exception before you move forward:
1) You would have your doctor or fertility clinic send a request to your sperm bank.
2) The sperm bank would then fill out the DSSAP application ( Guidance on Donor Semen Special Access Programme: Alternative Test Requirements), along with other necessary forms needed for processing and approval.
3) The sperm bank would send it back to your doctor's office or clinic, who would then forward it to the minister of health for approval.
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