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The high cost of IVF is driving people to informal sperm donation

Informal sperm donation is on the rise in Australia. So are the risks

Because of the informal nature of these arrangements, there is little oversight and even less data. But no woman should have to go through this kind of trauma in the pursuit of parenthood.

  • Neera Bhatia

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Andrew Veitch donated his sperm to 15 women he met online.

Review considers crackdown on ‘Wild West’ of online sperm donation

A rapid review of Australia’s fertility sector will consider the regulation of sperm and egg donation across clinics, online groups and apps.

  • Henrietta Cook
The sperm donor loophole that led to 27 half-siblings

The sperm donor loophole that led to 27 half-siblings

Andrew Veitch donated sperm to 15 women he met through donor-matching social media, creating 27 half-siblings. Much to the shock of their mothers, many of those children live within a few kilometres of each other.

  • Henrietta Cook
Ashleigh and Wyatt Galea say they would have had four kids if they could afford it.

Ashleigh and Wyatt could help end the ‘baby recession’. They have to win the lotto first

The Galea family are among the Australians putting a hold on the number of kids they have as cost-of-living pressures continue to hamstring the country’s fertility rate.

  • Millie Muroi and Shane Wright
Specialist IVF nurses employed by one of the state’s largest fertility clinics are preparing to walk off the job on Wednesday afternoon.

IVF nurses walk off the job at Queensland clinics

Staff unhappy with the company’s pay offer also say it is refusing to give Queensland nurses the same allowances their interstate counterparts enjoy.

  • Courtney Kruk and Catherine Strohfeldt
Some hair loss treatments have been linked to lower sperm counts.

Why some men trying for a family are ditching their hair loss treatments

For those couples struggling with fertility issues, anything that lowers the chances of conceiving is under the microscope.

  • T.M. Brown
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Not so perfect match? Some children have been linked to the wrong sperm donors or the wrong women.

Our fertility industry is a mess. As a donor, I know what could fix it

Sperm donors and even mothers have been matched with the wrong children. We have the science to make sure it doesn’t happen.

  • Gary Nunn
Alice Almeida has started the first support network for patients of IVF.

‘It felt like a business’: Patients unsettled over IVF bungles and an industry that controls itself

Would-be parents and those who have used IVF to conceive are anxious about the safety of fertility treatment following a series of recent bungles, as experts examine what must change.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Former Monash IVF chief operating officer Hamish Hamilton.

Embattled Monash IVF moves to block defecting executive’s move to rival

As investigators focus on how patients have been harmed by recent Monash IVF errors, the fertility giant was in court fighting to prevent a former employee passing on commercial secrets to its biggest rival.

  • Grant McArthur
The peak IVF industry body welcomed the three-month review and the potential for a national regulatory approach.

Fertility clinics face national regulation after Monash IVF bungles

A new independent national body will oversee Australia’s fertility industry amid concerns clinics have committed more errors than previously reported.

  • Grant McArthur

Original URL: https://www.watoday.com.au/topic/fertility-hpp