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Stay privacy-aware - egg donation and social media

At Altrui we’ve recently started putting pregnancy and birth announcements online - it’s wonderful to share positive news and everyone who reads it feels good. But it’s got us thinking about how we can publicly celebrate donors’ amazing gift while protecting your privacy online. We follow HFEA guidelines on anonymity, meaning we only let donors […]

Why one amazing woman decided to be an egg donor

I always wanted to donate eggs myself, partly because we needed donated sperm ourselves so I’ve been through it from the other side. We wouldn’t have our wonderful family if it wasn’t for the generosity of our sperm donor so it seemed only fitting to try to donate myself once our own family was complete. […]

Matching egg donors with egg recipients

As most of you will know, any children born as a result of egg donation have the right to know their donors’ identity when they reach 18 (i.e. adult). Non-identifying information can be accessed before then, but 18 is when they can apply to the authority (HFEA) in their own right to find out about […]

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Egg donation - the gift of parenthood

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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