It’s now only six days and counting until Cathy and I hit London for the Mother and Baby Show at ExCeL (24th - 26th February). We’re really looking forward to putting names to faces of some fantastic donors who we have had so much contact with, and to meet potential new donors as well. It’s [...]
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As the Christmas festivities get underway, we want to say a massive heartfelt thank you for your commitment to helping a couple with their dreams to have a family in the New Year. I’m sure you can imagine that Christmas is a very difficult time for couples battling fertility problems and that’s even more so [...]
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An article was written in ‘BioNews’ recently (‘Listen to Donors’) about how important it is to value and respect altruistic egg donors. This is something that we at Altrui feel passionately about. It is so easy to give the impression that egg donors have to fit in with the time scales of the clinics, and [...]
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It is illegal in the UK for egg donors to receive payment other than compensation for expenses but the shortage of donors has prompted many to call for payment to encourage more women to come forward. The issue was debated this month by the Progress Educational Trust in partnership with the Royal Society of Medicine, [...]
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An innovative scheme to help infertile couples through egg donation hopes to improve the experience and success rate for women by matching them anonymously one-to-one. Altrui, an organisation that seeks and supports altruistic egg donors and matches them with women who are unable to conceive, says it expects success rates of 60 to 70% by [...]
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