From September 18 to October 11, 2024, the Biomedicine Agency is launching a national tour to rapidly and massively recruit new gamete donors. A tour of France that is part of the continuity of the #FaitesDesParents campaign launched in October 2023.
13,000: this is the number of requests for medically assisted procreation with gamete donation last year. This figure has increased sixfold since the 2021 law which opened PMA to single women or couples.
Faced with demand, there are not enough donors. But also egg donors. Pauline wrote to RMC to warn. She has been following an ART process for two years and is desperately waiting to benefit from a donation.
The alert is also given by the National Agency for Biomedicine. The latter is pulling out all the stops: a “tour de France” to quickly and massively recruit new donors. The tour begins this Wednesday, September 18 in Caen. Place Saint-Sauveur, a truck from the biomedicine agency is present all day.
For one month, he will visit 10 cities in France: Rennes, Lille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Toulouse. With one goal, therefore: to collect more donations, but also more diverse profiles, to allow everyone to have a child who looks like them.
It concerns us: Gametes, a tour of France to recruit donors – 09/18
Who can donate and how does it work?
To donate a gamete, you must be an adult, up to 37 years old for a woman, 44 years old for a man. That’s 18 million potential donors and only 1,600 take the step each year.
To donate, it’s easier when you’re a man. You just have to go to a donation center, it takes a few minutes. For a woman, on the other hand, you have to take a treatment for 10 to 12 days before the collection, which is done in the hospital, under anesthesia.
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