Information for Sperm Donors

The following requirements must be fulfilled:

• Age: minimum 20 and maximum 35 years.
• He should be healthy without any cases of inheritable sicknesses in his family
• He should have completed primary and secondary or vocational school.
• His medical history should be free of drugs, venereal diseases and hepatitis.
• Men with healthy children are preferred.
• He must not have donated sperm at another institute.
• He is only accepted as donor for three marriages or partnerships. When these couples have completed their family planning his donation will no longer be accepted.
• The donor will be kept anonymous for the future parents. He has no rights and duties of a father relating to the child to be created with his sperm but he will not be kept absolutely anonymous for the child. The child has the right - after his 14th. Birthday - to see the medical records of the treatment his mother was underwent to become pregnant, and could thereby identify its biological father. The latter should allow the contact with his child.

Application as sperm donor

If you like to apply as sperm donor, please contact Dr. Peter Kemeter by telephone or mail:

++43  (0)664 922 48 86 
peter.kemeter@aon.at

• You will get an appointment for a test donation. Your ejaculate will be examined, that means a spermiogram is performed. The sperms are also examined whether they survive the process of freezing and thawing without substantial loss of quality. Our experience has shown that this is only the case when number and motility of sperm are relatively high. If your sperm do not meet these criteria this doesn’t mean that your fertility is reduced, it only means, that your ejaculate is not suitable for freezing and thawing.
• After we have the result of this examination we give you the information, whether you meet the criteria or not. If so, we invite you for a blood test to exclude any infection and we will take a detailed medical history of you.
• If you are an adequate donor you may undersign the contract with our institute which regulates your legal status as donor, the health checks and the fringe benefits. Fringe benefit is 100 Euro per donation.

In Austria the sperm donation is regulated in the reproduction-medicine-law „Fortpflanzungsmedizingesetz”.