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Egg-sharing: an evidence based solution to donor egg shortages

Cromwell IVF and Fertility Centre, London, UK.

Kamal K Ahuja, PhD, Scientific and Managing Director

Cromwell IVF and Fertility Centre, London, UK. email: kamal.ahuja{at}cromwellhospital.com (corresponding author)

Egg-sharing enables selected patients to receive subsidised IVF treatment in return for donating a proportion of their eggs to matched recipients. Birth rates for both parties are not compromised. However, egg-sharing is the one form of egg donation which does not make a healthy woman a patient. Policies based on advertising and no payments generate few donors. Those based on payments disguised as an inconvenience allowance are shallow. Following guidance from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in 2000, the popularity of egg-sharing has increased significantly. Egg-sharing is ethically and legally sound, minimises risk and should be the only form of egg donation permitted in the UK, as is the case in some other countries.

Keywords Keywords / altruism / egg donation / egg-sharing / payments / risks