Here’s what we know – and don’t know – about using IVF sperm donors from overseas

By Karin Hammarberg, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Global and Women's Health, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University

Australia’s fertility sector has been rocked by yet more reports of serious errors, this time involving sperm donors from overseas.

On Monday, an ABC investigation revealed a Brisbane couple had signed a non-disclosure agreement after discovering that sperm from the wrong overseas donor had been used to conceive their child, who was born in 2014.

The same fertility clinic had keep secret an…

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