PROCREA Cryopreservation Center

Since it's creation in 1990, more than 200 people use the sperm bank for insemination or in vitro fertilization with donor sperm annually.

Our pregnancy rate ensuing from sperm donation stands at about 15% per cycle.

Our clinic complies with the standards and regulations set forth by Health Canada, the Collège des médecins du Québec (Quebec College of Physicians), the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society as well as the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.

Our donors are men between the ages of 18 and 40, healthy and eager to provide people the means to fulfill their quest to become parents.

All the donors are controlled in accordance to Health Canada standards and undergo a complete annual physical examination including tests to screen for STDs and AIDS, which are performed every 3 months.

All sperm samples are put in quarantine, at least 180 days before being used.

Samples from our sperm bank are distributed to major fertility clinics throughout Quebec, the Maritimes as well as to doctors located in remote regions of Quebec. Since May 4^th 2004, prohibitions and penalties for anonymous sperm donor payment came in force with law C-6. However, this law allows the sperm donor to be indemnified by PROCREA Cryopreservation Center for his traveling fees by providing receipts.

Furthermore, at PROCREA Cliniques, anonymous sperm donation is universal. Matching between the recipient and the donor is established upon precise criteria such as skin color, blood type, as well as main physical features.

For any information concerning the Act, please logon to the Health Canada Web site at http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/protection/reproduction/index.htm


The Steps Involved in Recruiting Sperm Donors

A phone conversation with a lab technician and an understanding of the basic selection criteria.

If the donor passes stage 1, he is asked to go to the PROCREA clinic to meet with a lab technician, fill out a brief questionnaire and produce a sperm sample for the spermogram.

If the donor passes stage 2, he is asked to go to the PROCREA clinic to meet with the urologist and undergo various tests and exams: blood test, sperm sample, urine sample and physical exam. He will also fill out a questionnaire on his medical history with the urologist and, if all the tests are correct, he will be asked to sign the consent forms.

About four weeks later, if all the test results come back as being normal, the candidate is accepted as a donor and can begin to donate.

Through his gesture, the anonymous donor helps someone give life.