6 month sperm quarantine?

[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 ?

[Indadhanu]

Unknown, not anonymous. I think in most states he'd need to sign a contract and go on a register to be contactable, but whoever uses him as a donor would not know who he was until/unless the child turns 18 and chooses to seek him out.

[Bengal]

Thanks Leasha

[GlitterMum]

Unknown, not anonymous. I think in most states he'd need to sign a contract and go on a register to be contactable, but whoever uses him as a donor would not know who he was until/unless the child turns 18 and chooses to seek him out.

In WA the donor is known as anonymous, He goes on the register and CAN choose whether or not to be contacted when the child reaches 16.

The WA Clinic called concept has many anonymous donors and does not import from other states or overseas.

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