Virtus Health fertility clinics and Melbourne IVF, understand that choosing a donor may be a challenging process. This website enables you to view our donor’s profiles online and select the donor for your future treatment. We hope that you will find a suitable donor.
Our donor program will be explained to you during consultations with your fertility specialist, counsellor and donor program nurse. For your convenience we have highlighted a few of the key terms and conditions to keep in mind as you view the profiles.
Donor availability
In accordance with the Victorian Assisted Reproductive Treatment Act 2008, each donor can only donate to 10 women (this includes the donor's children with current and/or former partners). The donor may also specify a lesser number of women he wishes to donate to.
In order to comply with legislative requirements we are only able to offer access to patients based on the number of allocations remaining. You will be able to view how many allocations are available for each donor on the search page and on each donor’s profile.
All donors listed have completed their counselling, screening process, 3 month quarantine period and currently have allocations available. You will only be able to commence treatment once you have selected a donor.
Searching for a Donor
Please ensure you select the correct treatment type (IUI or ICSI) when selecting your donor. If you are unsure of the treatment type please get in touch with the donor team.
There are a couple of ways you can search for a donor.
Firstly you can scroll through the table on the Search page viewing donors as you go. To view an extended profile of the donor, please click the view profile button.
If you are looking for specific characteristics in a donor please click one or two features in the drop down boxes at the top of the search page and press the 'Go' button to initiate the search. Your search will then display only the donors that meet your search criteria.
Once you have chosen a donor that matches your requirements please click on the ‘This is the donor for me’ button on the donor profile page. This will send an email to our donor team, completing the selection process. You will then receive an email confirming your donor code selection.
You will also receive an email from the donor team confirming allocation of your chosen donor.
Please note that Melbourne IVF can only offer the use of clinic recruited donor sperm for four stimulated cycles for IVF/ICSI and two cycles for IUI.
Once you have selected a donor you will have 2 months to commence a treatment cycle. Also please note that Melbourne IVF is unable to hold your donor allocation for longer than 2 months between cycles. If you do not commence treatment in this timeframe, the donor allocation will be rescinded. Please contact the donor program nurse if you have any extenuating circumstances that will prevent you from commencing treatment within 2 months of selecting your donor or between treatment cycles.
If you have any questions or would like some support, please do not hesitate to contact the donor program on [03] 9473 4428 or email donorsperm@mivf.com.au.
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