Oocyte and sperm donation: Seeking volunteers

In order to strengthen the mobilization effort in favor of gamete donation and to inform about the new rights opened by the law of 2 August 2021 on bioethics, the Biomedicine Agency launches a major communication campaign.

Indeed, the Bioethics Act is changing the legal framework for medically assisted reproduction (MAP) by expanding its access to couples of women and unmarried women. Furthermore, it opens a new right for children from LDCs with donated gametes, giving them the opportunity to access, if they so request, by their majority, the identity of their donor, as well as non-identifying information about them.

What are gametes?

Gametes are the reproductive cells: sperm in men and oocytes in women. Gamete donation is offered for male or female infertility.

Gamete donation is an act of solidarity, governed by the current bioethics law. It is a free and anonymous act, freely consented to and carried out in a hospital. Whether or not they have children, healthy people aged between 18 and 45 for men and between 18 and 37 for women can donate gametes.

For more information on sperm donation, visit the Biomedicine Agency's dedicated website dondespermatozoides.fr

To learn more about egg donation, visit the specific website of the Biomedicine Agency dondovocytes.fr.