The recruitment of identifiable sperm donors: messages from overseas

This briefing paper is based on recent evidence from jurisdictions where legislation provides for the recruitment of identifiable donors (Sweden, Victoria [Australia], and the Netherlands), and where, in the absence of legislation, individual assisted conception units have promoted the recruitment of identifiable donors (New Zealand and the Sperm Bank of California). Despite the help of the secretariat of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE), it has not been possible to obtain information from two jurisdictions where legislation provides for the recruitment of identifiable donors (Austria and Switzerland).