Our Donors

The UK Cypriot Fertility Association, through our unique link with Cyprus IVF Centre (CIC) has access to a large and diverse pool of young Caucasian donors and we are able to provide donors from African, Asian and Indian subcontinent backgrounds. We will usually offer you a choice of suitable donors allowing you to be able to feel comfortable with the choice you make. The donors are all young, highly educated and rigorously screened and importantly, unlike most egg-sharers, do not suffer any fertility problems themselves.

Donors are women of 18-30 years of age. Most of them are 21-28 years old and often students or graduates of former Soviet Republics such as Russia, Ukraine and Moldova who are living or studying in Turkey and Cyprus.

The Donors will have a normal body weight, healthy medical and genetic history (including her family) and will have tested negative for all the infectious disease screening performed according to the standard criteria of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA).

Our egg donors cannot donate more than three times. Each egg donor undergoes an extensive consultation with the assistance of a doctor and a nurse, to determine her suitability for egg donation.

Physical characteristics required by the recipient and the blood groups are matched before identifying most suitable donors for each recipient.

All egg donors are fully screened prior to being accepted. Baseline ultrasounds and blood work will be carried out to determine hormone levels, absence of substance abuse, sexually transmitted or other diseases, and her physical eligibility to undergo follicle stimulation and egg retrieval.

Psychological screening and counselling is also carried out in all cases to ensure that the candidate egg donor is able to deal with the psychological aspect of the treatment. Genetic screening, when indicated, to test whether the individuals carry a genetically transmitted disease is carried out.

The criteria for donor selection include;

Age less than 30 years old
Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) level not more than 8 IU/L
Body Mass Index (BMI) not more than 25
No previous ovarian surgery
No personal history or family history of genetic or familial illness
No history of infertility

In addition, all donors are screened and must be completely clear with respect to:

Chlamydia
CMV
Cystic Fibrosis Gene
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis C
HIV
Kidney function
Liver function
Syphilis

If additional screening of the egg donor is requested for other rare genetic disorders, the next step is for the husband/partner to be screened for carrier status. If he is found to be positive, the egg donor is then screened.