Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Rainbow Flag Health Services
Rainbow Flag Health Services is the only sperm bank who actively recruit Gay and Bisexual sperm donors in North America. They accept donors from Gay, Bisexual or Heterosexual who wish to have children in their lives. A sperm bank will tell the mother who the donor is when the child is about 3 months old and can contact the the donor when the child reach on his/her 1st birthday. The donors have the limit for 4 – 6 children in different women. The donor have no financial obligations nor custody rights.
To become a donor, the subject must be in good health and can give a commitment for about 15 semen samples that will be frozen and quarantined for 6 months. The Donor will be returned for the retested of HIV before the semen will be released for insemination. $200.00 will be the paid for the donor which will be given for the follow up test. Weekly or twice a week the donations will be do that is the reason why the donors mus be live in Northern California but others will be accepted as long as they are willing to commit to fly weekly at their expense. The donor must practice a safer sex, have no genetic family diseases, under 55 years old, willing to have a physical exam, blood tests and fill out a questionnaire and also to make a commitment that he can provide 15 to 20 sperm samples for over 4 to 8 months.
To make an appointment to begin the process they will conduct a brief phone interview to have a perfectly good fertility and know which sperm will not survive for the freezing process. After abstaining from the ejaculating process for no less than 2 days but not more than 5 days you will give a semen sample. When the sperm count is higher they will freeze it and in one week defrost it see the sperm survive. When the cryosurvival is good then they will call you for the complete physical, lab test and more sperm.
For an appointment just contact at:
Rainbow Flag Health Services
Alameda, Ca.
1-510-521-SPERM
1-510-521-7737
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Monday, July 19th, 2004
UCSF Center for Reproductive Health
As a university-based program, the UCSF Center for Reproductive Health is involved with basic and clinical research in improving egg, sperm and embryo quality.
The goals of the program are to resolve infertility by achieving healthy pregnancies and to provide infertile couples with the highest quality of care.
The UCSF Center for Reproductive Health is located in the Women’s Health Building at the UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion.
UCSF Center for Reproductive Health
2356 Sutter Street, 7th Floor (Women’s Health Building)
San Francisco, CA 94115
415-353-7475
Fax: 415-353-7744
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Monday, July 19th, 2004
Sperm Bank of California, The (TSBC)
The Sperm Bank of California (TSBC) says it is the first and only sperm bank in the United States to operate as a non-profit organization.
They are proud to have developed the first Identity-Release(sm) Program in the world, a program that allows adult children conceived by donor insemination to learn their donor’s identity.
They conduct research on donor insemination to enhance acceptance of alternative family building and to inform and challenge industry practices.
The Sperm Bank of California
2115 Milvia Street, 2nd Floor
Berkeley CA 94704-1112
phone: 1-510-841-1858
fax: 1-510-841-0332
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Monday, July 19th, 2004
Pacific Reproductive Services, San Francisco (PRS) is a sperm bank that primarily provides services to the lesbian community.
They also serve single, heterosexual women and married couples. PRS believes that children born of donor insemination have a right to information about their biological lineage upon adulthood.
They claim to offer clients a higher percentage of willing-to-be-known donors than any other sperm bank.
Pacific Reproductive Services
444 De Haro St # 222
San Francisco, California 94107-2352
1-415-487-2288
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Monday, July 19th, 2004
The San Francisco Bay Area has several sperm banks that have good, informative web sites, and many more that are just listings.
Since there is competition between sperm banks for female customers, clinics have chosen to focus their services on various populations.
Essentially, sperm banks solicit sperm donors, require them to pass a series of tests and screenings and then store the sperm until a woman seeking to become pregnant via artificial insemination purchases it. Beyond this point the sperm banks differ in their mission.
Some are university hospitals and are essentially research oriented. Others serve the gay and lesbian community, and still others have special agendas to pursue. Some offer complete fertility treatments for men and women, others are mail order houses and the insemination part is up to the customer.
The burden of research is on the donor and the woman to find a service that meets their health, financial and emotional needs as well as their politics.
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