Sperm and Egg Bank: becoming a sperm or egg donor
The HUS Sperm and Egg Bank collects donated sperm and eggs to help involuntarily childless people fulfill their dream of having a child. The sperm and eggs donated to Sperm and Egg Bank are only used in Finnish public healthcare. Would you like to give the gift of a new life? Could you consider donating sperm or eggs?
Our donors need to have a Finnish social security number and access to public healthcare in Finland.
Donating sperm and eggs helps other people
Infertility is a rather common problem. About 15 percent of couples are not able to conceive after a year of trying. By providing fertility treatments such as insemination or in-vitro fertilization (IVF), we can help most childless couples using their own sperm and eggs.
However, we need sperm and egg donors to help patients whose production of reproductive cells is severely disturbed or completely missing. For example, a previous cancer treatment may damage reproductive organs and cause infertility. In women, an operation of the ovaries due to endometriosis or a tumour could lead to an early decline in the function of the ovaries. Donated sperm or eggs may also be needed when a person is a carrier of a serious hereditary disease or has a genetic abnormality causing infertility. In addition, female couples and single women need donated sperm for their fertility treatments.
Due to a limited amount of donated sperm and eggs, our patients need to wait to receive fertility treatment. The more donors we have, the faster we can help our patients.
Contact us
HUS Sperm and Egg Bank
Tilkan Viuhka
Mannerheimintie 164 a
tel. 09 471 72607 egg donors
tel. 09 471 72606 sperm donors
(Mo–Fr 7:30–15:30)
sukusolupankki@hus.fi
Egg donation
You can donate eggs if:
- you are basically healthy
- you are aged between 22 and 35
- you do not smoke
- your body mass index (BMI) is no more than 32
- neither you nor your immediate family members have any serious hereditary diseases
- results of the infection tests required under the Act on the Medical Use of Human Organs and Tissues* are negative
- you genuinely wish to help childless persons
* Finlex.fi: Act on the Medical Use of Human Organs and Tissues
How do I donate eggs?
Sperm donation
You can donate sperm if:
- you are basically healthy
- you are aged between 20 and 45
- you do not smoke
- your sperm survives freezing sufficiently well
- neither you nor your immediate family members have any serious hereditary diseases
- results of the infection tests required under the Act on the Medical Use of Human Organs and Tissues* are negative
- you genuinely wish to help childless persons
* Finlex.fi: Act on the Medical Use of Human Organs and Tissues
How do I donate sperm?
Embryo donation
You may donate embryos as a couple if:
- you are basically healthy
- you were aged no more than 36 (woman) and 46 (man) when the embryos were created
- the embryos were created with your own gametes
- you do not smoke
- neither you nor your immediate family members have any serious hereditary diseases
- results of the infection tests required under the Act on the Medical Use of Human Organs and Tissues* are negative
- you genuinely wish to help childless persons
* Finlex.fi: Act on the Medical Use of Human Organs and Tissues
How do we donate embryos?
Legislation
Finnish legislation allows the sperm or eggs of a single donor to be used for five families at most. The donor does not have any legal rights or responsibilities for the children born from fertility treatments using donated sperm or eggs.
As a donor, you must consent to having your personal information disclosed to the donor registry maintained by Valvira, The National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health. The Finnish Act on Assisted Fertility Treatments states that only a person born from donor conception has, after turning 18, the right to find out the identity of the donor. However, this requires that the parents have informed the child about the donor conception.
* Finlex.fi: Laki hedelmöityshoidosta (Act on Assisted Fertility Treatments)