6 month sperm quarantine?

[Lulu]

I just don't know how HIV (for eg) could develop in a frozen sample.....my brain hurts now!

[Indadhanu]

Yeah good point. Maybe they restest the donor...?? LOL! Dunno... I'll go have a read and get back to you!

[Indadhanu]

Ok, some of the sites i have just looked at say that the donor usually signs a contract stating they have to go back for regular testing in the 6 months from providing the sample.

Your cluey Lulu, I never even through about Didn't need to as we used an unknown donor (who had already gone through the full quranatine process).

[Bengal]

Interesting topic .. Surely infec diseases dont mutate in frozen sperm, any one googled ?

[Indadhanu]

If the donor had it at the time of donation, even if it doesn't show up on tests, like its early stages, it is still infectious? is that right? Because HIV doesn't show up for 6 months sometimes (most times?), but they still have it.

[Bengal]

Googled ; By law it has to be Q for 6 months, after that the donor should be tested, as HIV etc may take 6 months to show up. In Aust, you have to know the donor, is that right? That is why many women go o/seas so the donor is anonomous ?

[Indadhanu]

We used an Australian unknown donor, but it is VERY RARE to find a clinic which has Australian unknown donors, which is why people import from overseas.

I think in most states now it is a legal requirement for the donor to be contactable when the child turns 18. Our donor is.

[Bengal]

Not trying to HJ the thread, if DH decided to be a donor he could be anonomous in Australia ?